Oxford Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oxford Paradise Philosophy
“To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. “Philosophy… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” —John Milton, Paradise Lost” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“Life is a shrewd teacher, hardship is an unfriendly lecturer, death is a pessimistic professor, and eternity is an illuminated philosopher.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there. — Eric Greitens 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
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford]… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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