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
- Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- Sanity is a madness put to good use.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Best Quotes
- Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
- For every battle that you fight, remember your always a winner, do not release the rope, hold on tight.
- The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.