George Santayana

Philosopher

286 Quotes

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Pemuda yang belum menangis itu buas, dan lelaki tua yang tidak akan tertawa itu bodoh.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Hampir setiap pepatah bijak memiliki kebalikannya, tak kalah bijaknya, untuk menyeimbangkannya.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Depression is rage spread thin.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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