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Letter "G" » George Santayana Quotes
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«A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.»
«The Bible is literature, not dogma.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Religion
| Keywords:
dogma
«There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.»
«The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
condor, Empire, flexible, stoop, virulent
«Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
Almost always, of one mind, spots, the union, union
«The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it»
«The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination,
Poetry,
Reality
| Keywords:
degree, dominates, exact
«Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
contradict, endeavor, old man
«Sanity is a madness put to good use.»
«Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
broad, dwells, foundations, incapable, intrinsic, perspectives, vitality
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