Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Quote by George Santayana

Topics: Appreciation Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt,...

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt,...

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who...

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who...

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or...

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its...

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is...

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous...

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous...

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history...

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history...