Best George Santayana Proverbs
- What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. Facts
- Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair. Any
- The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… Among
- There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves… All
- Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and… Constitutional
- It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… Bathe
- The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. All
- A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted… All
- Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. Beyond
- What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And… Age
- It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. Adorers
- In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. Change
- Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. Basics
- Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice… All
- The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… Artist
- In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else Concert
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. Advice
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. Chastity
- The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. Caricature
- A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a… Articles
- Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. Bases
- Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. Emotion
- Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. Conclusion
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. Almost Always
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. Believe
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