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George Santayana Quotes
«To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Seasons
| Keywords:
hopelessly, seasons, state change, state of mind
«Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
attaching, inner world, objects
«Wisdom comes by disillusionment.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Disillusionment,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
disillusionment
«My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.»
«Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
doers, low, virtuous
«The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Beauty,
Hope,
Laughter,
Life
| Keywords:
blooms, deluded, glint, respectable, through with, tormented
«Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
quickness, Seeing Things