By nature's kindly disposition most ques... by George Santayana | We Heart Quotes

Nature Power Man

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

- George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

Importance Imagination End

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

- George Santayana

Truth Fact

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

- George Santayana

Successful

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

- George Santayana

Common sense

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

- George Santayana

School

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana

Crime War

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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Past Power Years

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

- Charles E. Wilson

Present Right First Power

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

- John Bates Clark

Germany Duty Fear Worth Fact

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

- Alexander Hamilton

Power

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

- Tacitus

Power

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Power

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

- E. Stanley Jones