George Santayana Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Sight, Giving

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

• Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

  George Santayana

  Love, Men, Giving

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

• Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

  George Santayana

  Giving, Healthy, Special

• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Character, Men

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

• What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

  George Santayana

  Art, Men, Giving

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.84, MIT Press

• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

  George Santayana

  Music, Mean, Giving

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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