What did George Santayana mean by: Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. George Santayana Copy
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Patience, Unhappiness, 0 George Santayana
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Force, Refutation, 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
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Caution, Skepticism, Wisdom, 0 George Santayana
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Chaos, Confusion, Order, 0 George Santayana
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Danger, Philosophy, 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
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Drama, Imagination, Society, 0 George Santayana
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
