George Santayana Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

  George Santayana

  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

• There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Principles, Adequate

• To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

  George Santayana

  Criticism, Facts, Judgment

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

• History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

  George Santayana

  Kings, History, Interesting

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

• Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

  George Santayana

  Relative Value, May, Common

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.281, 谷月社

• What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

  George Santayana

  May, Facts, Being True

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.63, Рипол Классик

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