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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Kundskab

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited

Nonsens

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.

Motsatser

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

Motsatser

He overcomes a strong enemy who overcomes his own anger

Övervinnelse

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome

Övervinnelse

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

Dåtid

Alla levande själar välkomnar vad de är redo att hantera; allt annat ignorerar de, eller förklarar vara fruktansvärt och fel, eller nekar till att det är möjligt.

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.

Pessimisme

To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic

Psykologi

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Hævn

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Mental hälsa

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Mental hälsa

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Årstid

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca

Skeptism

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts

Teori

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