Imaginary Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imaginary Mysticism Sanctity Social Source Spirituality
“sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to the meaning-constructing… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“A critical piece of holistic self-becoming involves the deeply felt realization that our thoughts, beliefs and intentions aren’t merely mental or ‘just imaginary’ events.… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation. — Sergio Pinto Copy Share Image
“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians. — Emily Haines Copy Share Image