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„Библия — это литература, а не догма.“

„Испытывать удовольствие от войны — это заслуга для солдата, опасное качество для офицера и несомненное преступление для государственного деятеля.“

„Ногами человек должен врасти в землю своей родины, но глаза его пусть обозревают весь мир.“

„Ребенок, получивший образование только в учебном заведении, — необразованный ребенок.“

„Чтобы оценить семейное счастье, необходимо терпение; нетерпеливые натуры предпочитают несчастье.“

„Жизнь в своем течении — это пропасть потерянного времени; ничто не может быть восстановлено или истинно обретено иначе, как в форме вечности или, что то же, в форме искусства.“

„Общество — как воздух: оно необходимо для дыхания, но недостаточно для жизни.“

„Фанатизм — это когда удваивают усилия, потеряв из виду цель.“

„Трудное — это то, что может быть сделано немедленно; невозможное — то, что потребует немного больше времени.“

„Даже если мужчина и женщина приходят к единому мнению, они приходят к нему разным путем.“

„Самая одинокая женщина в мире – это женщина, у которой нет близкой подруги.“

„Кто не помнит своего прошлого, обречен пережить его вновь.“

„Конец войны увидят лишь мертвые.“

„В других нас раздражает не отсутствие совершенства, а отсутствие сходства с нами.“

„И самому мудрейшему из умов всегда остается чему еще поучиться.“

„Семья — один из шедевров природы.“

„Не смотри в прошлое с тоской, оно не вернется! Мудро распорядись настоящим!“

„Те, кто не учится на своих ошибках, обречены повторять их..“

„Смысл молитвы — в готовности получить отказ.“

„Правду как и драгоценность не нужно приукрашивать, но ее надо располагать так, чтобы она была видна в выгодном освещении“

„Подобно тому как все искусства тяготеют к музыке, все науки стремятся к математике.“

„Почти каждому мудрому изречению соответствует противоположное по смыслу — и при этом не менее мудрое.“

„Декларации о независимости ещё никого не сделали истинно независимыми.“

„Здравомыслие - это безумие, которое можно использовать во благо“

„Книгу, подаренную вам автором, благоразумнее всего похвалить не читая: это избавит вас от предумышленной лжи.“

„Здравомыслие — это безумие в хорошем применении.“

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

“At midday the daily food of all Spaniards was the puchero or cocido, as the dish is really called which the foreigners call pot-pourri or olla podrida. This contains principally yellow chick-peas, with a little bacon, some potatoes or other vegetables and normally also small pieces of beef or sausage, all boiled in one pot at a very slow fire; the liquid of the same makes the substantial broth that is served first.”

“I leave you but the sound of many a word
In mocking echoes haply overheard,
I sang to heaven. My exile made me free,
from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”

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

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

“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.”

“They [the wise spirits of antiquity in the first circle of Dante's Inferno] are condemned, Dante tells us, to no other penalty than to live in desire without hope, a fate appropriate to noble souls with a clear vision of life.”

“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”

“Prosperity, both for individuals and for states, means possessions; and possessions mean burdens and harness and slavery; and slavery for the mind, too, because it is not only the rich man's time that is pre-empted, but his affections, his judgement, and the range of his thoughts.”

“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”

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

“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”

“American life is a powerful solvent. As it stamps the immigrant, almost before he can speak English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery self-confidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.”

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“In America literary reputations come and go so swiftly," I complained, fatuously. [Santayana's] answer was swift. "It would be insufferable if they did not.”

“Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.”

“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.”

“There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.”

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

“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.”

“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”

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