Foe Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foe Man Simplicity Simplicity Simplicity Sophistication Sophistication Spirit Spirit Foe
Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world.… — Siang-Yang Tan Copy Share Image
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him. — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so there is… — Jennifer Kavanagh 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
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much… — Euripides Copy Share Image
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
