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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e40414 | Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. | George Santayana | ||
| 6396877 | The Bible is literature, not dogma. | George Santayana | ||
| ae9d17d | To covet truth is a very distinguished passion. | George Santayana | ||
| 340d4c2 | Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. | George Santayana | ||
| 9a90a38 | To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. | George Santayana | ||
| 81ce187 | Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge. | George Santayana | ||
| 96196f2 | The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. | George Santayana | ||
| 62c0f81 | Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things. | George Santayana | ||
| 55636c1 | The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. | George Santayana | ||
| 3e7452c | George Will: Oh yes. | George Will | ||
| c36d138 | England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. | George Santayana | ||
| b9883cd | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. | George Santayana | ||
| 67dd79b | The living have never shown me how to live. | George Santayana | ||
| 92e4889 | Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise. | George Santayana | ||
| a8e1d46 | The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. | George Santayana | ||
| a63795e | The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. | George Santayana | ||
| 6caa4f2 | Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. | George Santayana | ||
| 310ced8 | Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. | George Santayana | ||
| 2709b00 | Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. | George Santayana | ||
| 5c812c2 | The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. | George Santayana | ||
| b8bcd28 | science is the most revolutionary force in the world. | George Sarton | ||
| 2bc5862 | Arabic science was the fruit of Semitic genius fertilized by the Iranian genius. | George Sarton | ||
| f20dc99 | The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. | George Sarton | ||
| 7d86913 | My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older. | George Sarton | ||
| 07ea8a4 | Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| e19f5ad | A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 5694526 | A Princely Mind will undo a private Family. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| d76bb7b | Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| afd4387 | A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 803e670 | A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 0972745 | Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 7e7d0e2 | If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 2e0aea0 | Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 0b80ade | Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 1d41b5f | Of Malice and Envy. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 1af421f | The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 0ecfe39 | Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| a5b11a5 | It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 4e09326 | Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 09fee9f | The vanity of teaching often tempteth a Man to forget he is a Blockhead. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 793211e | The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 07974c2 | Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 6ebe699 | A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax | ||
| 3df1cea | Folly is often more cruel in the consequence, than malice can be in the intent. | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax |