What did George Santayana mean by: Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. George Santayana Copy
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Change, Relevance, Time, 0 George Santayana
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child’s eyes. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Acceptance, Creativity, Harmony, 0 George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Dualism, Perception, Reality, 0 George Santayana
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Globalism, Nationalism, Perspective, 0 George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Condemnation, Egotism, Intolerance, 0 George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Freedom, Love, Truth, 0 George Santayana
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Control, Oppression, Power, 0 George Santayana
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man’s good is found in another’s evil. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Competition, Conflict, Morality, 0 George Santayana
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you’ve lost forever. There is only now. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
