Greater Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater Ideals Inspirational Love Meanness Stupidity Uniformity
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low. — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. — Bill Mollison 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
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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