George Santayana Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von George Santayana:

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

George Santayana

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

George Santayana

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

George Santayana

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

George Santayana

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

George Santayana

America is a young country with an old mentality.

George Santayana

Habit is stronger than reason.

George Santayana

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

George Santayana

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

George Santayana

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

George Santayana

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

George Santayana