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Mind Quotes by George Santayana
- Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
- Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we…
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
- There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it…
- The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
- Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched…
- Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
- 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,…
- A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
- Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like…
- A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves…
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
- 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…
- Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle