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George Santayana Quotes
«The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
irrational, maniac, maniacs, miser, repulsive
«In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
endowing, ephemeral, unimaginable, unreflective
«Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.»
«The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.»
«Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.»
«Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
facilities, The Traveler, traveler