Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George SantayanaThe wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George SantayanaThe world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George SantayanaFanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George SantayanaThere is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
George SantayanaMy atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George SantayanaStichwörter: motivational inspirational atheism universe naturalism gods baruch-spinoza interest piety spinoza
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
George SantayanaThe need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.
George SantayanaAll living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible
George SantayanaProgress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
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