Another world Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Columbus gave the world another world.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Another world Columbus World
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.” — José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero Copy Share Image
“under the same cross that Christopher Columbus’s three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.” — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,… — Bill Cowher Copy Share Image
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyee Copy Share Image
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau 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 identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Every time you touch me I stop breathing, that's why I never have much to say. Every time I see you, my heart skips… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness,… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want… — Harley King Copy Share Image
“And it was then that the things I've never liked to talk about began. Not that they were particularly terrible; I've no wish to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image