What did George Santayana mean by: Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. George Santayana Copy
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Communication, Respect, Understanding, 0 George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Humility, Reflection, Self-awareness, 0 George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Dependency, Insufficiency, Vitality, 0 George Santayana
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Adaptation, Memory, Truth, 0 George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Awakening, Illusion, Truth., 0 George Santayana
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Science, Truth, Values, 0 George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Beauty, Meaning, 0 George Santayana
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Balance, Duality, Wisdom, 0 George Santayana
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
