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«Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.»
«To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlled, dreadful, geography, indignities, indignity
«Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Common sense,
Nonsense
| Keywords:
limited, nonsense
«Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
cares, enslave, enslaves, instruments, tyrants
«Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Chaos
| Keywords:
confusion, produces
«To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
captain, delight, merit, soldier, statesman, The Soldier, The Statesman, war crime
«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.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, deny, monstrous, pronounce, pronouncing, welcome
«Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts»
«Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.»
«Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fashion
| Keywords:
barbarous, imitation, innovation
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