George Santayana słynne cytaty
„Wysublimowana sztuka wyklucza lubieżność.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem…, oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, op. cit., s. 293.
„Nic nie tchnie taką świeżością jak przedświt i brzask nowego dnia.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Życie nie jest romansem, przedstawieniem w teatrze czy działalnością – lecz trudną sytuacją.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem…, oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, op. cit., s. 293.
George Santayana cytaty
„Towarzystwo jest jak powietrze: niezbędne do oddychania, ale niewystarczające do życia.”
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. „Zamek”, Warszawa 1995, s. 150.
„Fanatyzm polega na podwojeniu wysiłku, gdy zapomnieliśmy o celu.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, Antyk, Kęty 1993, ISBN 8386482001, s. 293.
„Świat realny jest jeden i to w zupełności wystarczy.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem…, oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, op. cit., s. 293.
George Santayana: Cytaty po angielsku
“Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.”
Źródło: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), P. 30
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VII
Źródło: Persons and Places (1944), p. 14
The Poet's Testament http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poet-s-testament/
Other works
“The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth.”
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art
“But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy!”
William James, of Santayana's The Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), in a letter to George H. Palmer (1900), as quoted in George Santayana : A Biography (2003) by John McCormick
Misattributed
"Dickens"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Obiter Scripta (1936)
Other works
"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
"The Irony of Liberalism"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
“To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.”
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
Źródło: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 4
"The Academic Environment" p. 47 ( Hathi Trust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3923968?urlappend=%3Bseq=63)
Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)
"The Irony of Liberalism"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
“The living have never shown me how to live.”
"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
O World, Thou Choosest Not http://www.bartleby.com/236/270.html (1894)
Other works
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. VIII: Ideal Society
“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.”
Źródło: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 199
Gore Vidal, in Palimpsest, A Memoir (1995)
Misattributed
Źródło: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VI
Pt. IV, Expression; § 67: "Conclusion.", p. 270
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
Other works
“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”
Introduction to The Ethics of Spinoza (1910)
Introduction to The Ethics of Spinoza (1910)
“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”
Źródło: Persons and Places (1944), p. 61
“Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.”
This statement is presented in quotes in The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta (2008) by Arvind Sharma, p. 216, as a "Santayanan point", but earlier publications by the same author, such as in A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (2006), p. 161, state it to be a stance of Santayana without actually indicating or in any ways implying that it is a direct quotation.
Disputed