| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » George Santayana
Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952 | | Quotes: 181 - 198 of 198 | Pages: First ... Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | | | | | | To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content. | | Uncategorized | | | To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman | | War | | | To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried | | Uncategorized | | | To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions | | Fighting | | | To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful | | Uncategorized | | | To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. | | Uncategorized | | | To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. | | Uncategorized | | | To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. | | Uncategorized | | | To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic | | Psychology | | | Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them | | Tyranny | | | Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs | | Uncategorized | | | 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 | | Future; Past | | | Wealth, religion and military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. | | Uncategorized | | | | | What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak | | Religion | | | | | Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy | | Words | | | Work and love -- these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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