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Quote by George Santayana
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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positive
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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Beauty
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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Hope
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Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorthea Lange

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins

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Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. – Erich Heller

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If you cry “Forward,” you must make plain in what direction to go. – Anton Chekhov

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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. – Marcus Aurelius

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson

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When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure. – Julie Burchill

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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