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Life Quotes by George Santayana
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
- The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
- Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception…
- To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
- The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best…
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of…
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- 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…
- The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of…
- A simple life is its own reward.
- Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
- Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts…
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
- When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under…
- Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of…
- Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not…
- What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
- It is the acme of life to understand life.
- Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
- The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
- Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
- Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's…
- All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle