Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
Quote by George Santayana
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Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
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George Santayana Quotes
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- 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.
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Best Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
- We heed no instincts but our own.