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George Santayana, plným jménem Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana byl americký filosof, kritik a spisovatel španělského původu, představitel naturalismu a „klasické“ americké filosofie. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. prosinec 1863 – 26. září 1952
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George Santayana: Citáty o životě

George Santayana: Citáty o minulosti

„Ti, kteří si nepamatují minulost, jsou odsouzeni k tomu, aby si ji zopakovali.“

Zdroj: George Santayana. Citaty.net [online]. [cit. 2008-12-03]. Dostupné online. http://citaty.net/autori/santayana-george

George Santayana citáty a výroky

„Jste daleko šťastnější na duši, když sledujete roční období, než když jste beznadějně zamilováni do jara.“

Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 269]

„Opakování je jediná forma stálosti, jaké může příroda dosáhnout.“

Originál: (en) Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
Zdroj: [Barrow, John D., Jan Novotný, Teorie všeho, Mladá fronta, Praha, 1999, 96, 82-204-0602-6]
Zdroj: [Barrow, John D., New Theories of Everything, https://books.google.cz/books?hl=cs&id=JJ1aDC_wYM0C&q=Santayana#v=snippet&q=Santayana&f=false, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, The copy-cat principle, 0191579378]

George Santayana: Citáty anglicky

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”

Zdroj: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VII

“The mind celebrates a little triumph whenever it can formulate a truth.”

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy!”

William James, of Santayana's The Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), in a letter to George H. Palmer (1900), as quoted in George Santayana : A Biography (2003) by John McCormick
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“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society

“To know how just a cause we have for grieving is already a consolation.”

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“The living have never shown me how to live.”

"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“Most men’s conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continual comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”

Zdroj: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. VIII: Ideal Society

“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”

Zdroj: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal

“Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble, it must remain rare, if common, it must become mean.”

Zdroj: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal

“Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.”

Zdroj: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal

“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.”

Zdroj: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 199

“Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.”

George Santayana kniha The Sense of Beauty

Pt. IV, Expression; § 67: "Conclusion.", p. 270
The Sense of Beauty (1896)

“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”

Introduction to The Ethics of Spinoza (1910)

“Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.”

This statement is presented in quotes in The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta (2008) by Arvind Sharma, p. 216, as a "Santayanan point", but earlier publications by the same author, such as in A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion‎ (2006), p. 161, state it to be a stance of Santayana without actually indicating or in any ways implying that it is a direct quotation.
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