Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
Quote by George Santayana
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Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
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George Santayana Quotes
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Best Quotes
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.