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Letter "G" » George Santayana Quotes
«Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.»
«The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.»
«It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.»
«Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Experience
| Keywords:
conclusions, empiricism, sworn
«To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
condemn, delightful, irrespective, occupations, prizing, spontaneous, uncritical
«Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Progress
| Keywords:
consisting, retentiveness
«Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Parents
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endow, lend, vicarious
«The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.»
«The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything»
«Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality»
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