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Letter "G" » George Santayana Quotes
«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.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, artificial, depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, in a sense, kindred, medium, movement, real life, setting, theatre, The Theatre, to that
«The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
before Christ, christ, Christianity, idea, older
«The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
division, division of labor, doubtless, drags, expedient, Expedients, irrational, nurses, pedagogue, Pedagogues, sexless, slave labor, unnecessary, vexations, workers
«To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Psychology
| Keywords:
classic, consolation, delude, The Romantic
«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.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Devil,
Revenge
| Keywords:
entrap, entraps, suppressed, The Force
«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»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Fighting
| Keywords:
directions, fancies, radical
«The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.»
«A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
in full, morally, uncompromising
«Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome»
«It is wisdom to believe the heart»
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