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✵ 16. december 1863 – 26. szeptember 1952
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George Santayana: Idézetek angolul

“All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.”

George Santayana

&quot;Materialism and Idealism&quot; p. 175 ( Hathi Trust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3923968?urlappend=%3Bseq=191) <br class="br">Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)

“Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor.”

George Santayana

Forrás: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. XIV

“Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.”

George Santayana

Forrás: The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 58

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

“Santayana, indeed, is the Moses of the new naturalism, who discerned the promised land from afar but still wanders himself in the desert realms of being.”

George Santayana

John Herman Randall, "The Nature of Naturalism", epilogue to Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944)
Misattributed

“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.”

George Santayana

"The British Character"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.”

George Santayana

&quot;Normal Madness,&quot; Ch. 3, P. 56 http://books.google.com/books?id=apSwAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=%22The+soul+too+has+her+virginity+and+must+bleed+a+little+before+bearing+fruit%22&amp;pg=PA56#v=onepage <br class="br">Dialogues in Limbo (1926)

“[The empiricist] thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.”

George Santayana könyv Scepticism and Animal Faith

"Objections to Belief in Substance", p. 201
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)

“Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.”

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”

George Santayana

Ch. VI: Free Society http://books.google.com/books?id=ICAsAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22When+men+and+women+agree+it+is+only+in+their+conclusions+their+reasons+are+always+different%22&amp;pg=PA148#v=onepage <br class="br">The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society

“The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.”

George Santayana

Giorgio de Santillana (1902-1974) The Crime of Galileo http://books.google.com/books?id=34uQ6tlYHRgC&amp;q=%22The+working+of+great+administrations+is+mainly+the+result+of+a+vast+mass+of+routine+petty+malice+self-interest+carelessness+and+sheer+mistake+Only+a+residual+fraction+is+thought%22&amp;pg=PA290#v=onepage (1958) <br class="br">Many sources mistakenly attribute this quote to Santayana, and one http://books.google.com/books?id=e4tzpkw4caAC&amp;q=%22The+working+of+great+institutions+is+mainly+the+result+of+a+vast+mass+of+routine+petty+malice+self-interest+carelessness+and+sheer+mistake+Only+a+residual+fraction+is+thought%22&amp;pg=PA283#v=onepage even identifies the correct book, without realizing that George Santayana and Giorgio de Santillana are two different people <br class="br">Misattributed

“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”

George Santayana

Forrás: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. III: Industry, Government, and War

“Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.”

George Santayana

"The British Character"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)