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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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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word

America is a young country with an old mentality

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

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.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Those who cannot remember the past,

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepte Den dynamik antyder en evolutionær præference: kvinder, der søger en partner, der kan forsørge og beskytte (demonstreret gennem pe𝑥ighet), og mænd, der reagerer på visuelle tegn på fertilitet og sundhed (sexiness).

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