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Nothing Quotes by George Santayana
- There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a…
- I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
- Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
- Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
- The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually…
- There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
- Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
- There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
- Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
- Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
- 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…
- To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will…
- Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
- Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
- Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
- 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…
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- 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…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong