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12346 quotesAlmost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Proverbs
George Santayana
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Beauty
George Santayana
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Character
George Santayana
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
Emotions
George Santayana
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
George Santayana
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Fun
George Santayana
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Habit is stronger than reason.
Habit
George Santayana
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Pain
George Santayana
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Advantage
George Santayana
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
Saints
George Santayana
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Unhappiness
George Santayana
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Knowledge
George Santayana
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Happiness
George Santayana
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
Nonsense
George Santayana
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Dignity
George Santayana
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Society
George Santayana
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Body
George Santayana
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Institutions
George Santayana
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Santayana
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
Space
George Santayana
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
Sympathy
George Santayana
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Past
George Santayana
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Words
George Santayana
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun