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May Quotes by George Santayana
- Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
- Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether.
- 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…
- Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a…
- Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
- Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk,…
- The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
- At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may…
- The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of…
- What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
- 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…
- Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
- The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions…
- With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind…
- A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong