George Santayana Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

• It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Imagination

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.198, 谷月社

• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

• O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Art, Believe

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

• What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

• The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

  George Santayana

  Eye, And Love, World

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.248, MIT Press

• With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

  George Santayana

  Children, Eye, Artist

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.312, Indiana University Press

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