215 ordspråk av George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana föddes den
16 Dezember 1863 och dog den 26 September
1952 - who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism.
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Sanity is a madness put to good uses
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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The Bible is literature, not dogma.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular
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