137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 61. Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
- 62. Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with ...
- 63. Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- 64. Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
- 65. Oaths are the fossils of piety.
- 66. Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
- 67. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- 68. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- 69. Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and ...
- 70. Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
- 71. Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
- 72. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a v ...
- 73. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
- 74. Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
- 75. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there rem ...
- 76. Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
- 77. Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
- 78. Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
- 79. Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
- 80. Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minute ...
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