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Better Quotes by George Santayana
- Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
- There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to…
- It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or…
- Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
- Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
- 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…
- 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…
- Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind…
- To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,…
- Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell…
- He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius