Quote #41
Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.
More from George Santayana
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
- Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
- All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be …
- A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
- A man's feet must be planted in his country but his eyes must survey the world.
- The living have never shown me how to live.
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.