What did George Santayana mean by: Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. George Santayana Copy
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Friendship, Loneliness, Support, 0 George Santayana
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Ability, Confidence, Motivation, 0 George Santayana
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Nature, Permanence, Repetition, 0 George Santayana
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Enhancement, Goodness, Sacrifice, 0 George Santayana
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Alienation, Loss, Tolerance, 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
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
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Intellect, Morality, Principles, 0 George Santayana
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
