Zitate von George de Santayana
Ein bekanntes Zitat von George de Santayana:
Mir erscheint es schrecklich unwürdig, wenn die Seele von der Geographie beherrscht wird.
Informationen über George de Santayana
Dichter, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, "The Sense of Beauty", "The Life of Reason", "Dialogues in Limbo", "Three Philosophical Poets" (Spanien/USA, 1863 - 1952).
George de Santayana · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
George de Santayana wäre heute 160 Jahre, 3 Monate, 12 Tage oder 58.542 Tage alt.
Geboren am 16.12.1863 in Madrid
Gestorben am 27.09.1952 in Rom
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Weitere 82 Zitate von George de Santayana
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
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In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
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Interest in the changing seasons is a much happier state of mind than being hopelessly in love with spring.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is right to prefer one's own country to others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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My atheism . . . is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
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Myths are not believed in, they are conceived and understood.
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Our dignity is not in what we do but what we understand. The whole world is doing things.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
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Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.