Acquire Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquire Commentaries Commentaries Provoke Commentary Firsts Inspirational Meaning Commentaries Nature Provoking Works Nature
Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself. — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
“Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.” — Alexander Humboldt Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Nature is not some entity. Nature means coming together of circumstances. The effort of circumstances coming together is nature and the circumstances came together… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it? — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image