235 ordspråk av George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana föddes den 16 december 1863 och dog den 26 september 1952 - spansk-amerikansk filosof, författare och kritiker.
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 Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. |
| Sanity is a madness put to good use. |
| To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. |
 Tyranner är sällan fria; bekymren och verktygen för deras tyranni förslavar dem. | Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them |
| Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. |
| To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman |
| Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. |
| It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger |
| Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience |
| The highest form of vanity is love of fame. |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. |
| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. |
| The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. |
| The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity |
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