What did George Santayana mean by: Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. - George Santayana Copy
+ Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Confidence, Knowledge, Self, 0 - George Santayana
+ Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Sacrifice, 0 - George Santayana
+ History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Historian, 0 - George Santayana
+ A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Soul, 0 - George Santayana
+ Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Argument, Enemy, Weapons, 0 - George Santayana
+ Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Character, Personality, 0 - George Santayana
+ A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Country, Knowledge, 0 - George Santayana
+ The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man’s good is found in another’s evil. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Evil, Savages, 0 - George Santayana
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself. - Fulton J. Sheen Cleric · USA
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
