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George SantayanaStichwörter: classic culture tradition george-santayana
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.
George SantayanaThe body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.
George SantayanaWe laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?
George SantayanaThe contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.
George SantayanaThose were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not made for friendship: common interests are not strong enough, private interests too absorbing. In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
George SantayanaThe wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
George SantayanaStichwörter: learning
It would be easy, however, to exaggerate the havoc wrought by such artificial conditions. The monotony we observe in mankind must not be charged to the oppressive influence of circumstances crushing the individual soul. It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation; and society, in imposing on them some chance language, some chance religion, and some chance career, first plants an ideal in their bosoms and insinuates into them a sort of racial or professional soul. Their only character is composed of the habits they have been led to acquire. Some little propensities betrayed in childhood may very probably survive; one man may prove by his dying words that he was congenitally witty, another tender, another brave.But these native qualities will simply have added an ineffectual tint to some typical existence or other; and the vast majority will remain, as Schopenhauer said, Fabrikwaaren der Natur.
George SantayanaThose who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
George SantayanaHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten
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