The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Quote by George Santayana
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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George Santayana Quotes
- An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
- To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Best Quotes
- I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
- The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
- Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.