Quote by George Santayana
By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a

By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana

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Age
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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Miscellaneous
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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Human nature is what Heaven supplies. – Xun Zi

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Nature

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. – Yvon Chouinard

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Nature

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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Nature

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller

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Nature

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal – Jean Baudrillard

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service. – Bhagavad Gita

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. – Jean Rostand

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