Quote #45
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
More from George Santayana
- A man's feet must be planted in his country but his eyes must survey the world.
- Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.
- A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
- Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.