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George Santayana Quotes
«The Bible is literature, not dogma.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Religion
| Keywords:
dogma
«The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
condor, Empire, flexible, stoop, virulent
«Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
Almost always, of one mind, spots, the union, union
«The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination,
Poetry,
Reality
| Keywords:
degree, dominates, exact
«Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
contradict, endeavor, old man
«Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
broad, dwells, foundations, incapable, intrinsic, perspectives, vitality