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Philosophy Quotes by George Santayana
- Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
- Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
- Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.
- Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
- It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
- 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 God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
- Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and…
- The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
- Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
- The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon