What did George Santayana mean by: The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana Copy
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Disillusionment, Frustration, Irony, 0 George Santayana
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Promise, Ruin, 0 George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Complexity, Interpretation, Meaning, 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
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Borrowing, Danger, 0 George Santayana
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Body, Mind, Witness, 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
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Authenticity, Balance, Humor, 0 George Santayana
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
