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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations


George Santayana

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THOMAS SZASZ Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.
RALPH NADER The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
ENOCH POWELL Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
ALAIN DE BOTTON Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fis...
C.S. LEWIS No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance
GIACOMO LEOPARDI No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
JONI MITCHELL Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when ...
TERRY GOODKIND No man knows less than the man who knows it all
SOURCE UNKNOWN There was no communication for less than 60 seconds. Jay Street took over in less than a minute.
CHARLES SEATON Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of w...
DAN GROAT The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHAL Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make
ABRAHAM COWLEY Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI The arts of peace are great,And no less glorious than those of war.
WILLIAM BLAKE The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
PLUTARCH Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
HONORE DE BALZAC Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
JOHN MILTON Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
JOHN MILTON The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY What we have here is no less than the future of the Internet as we know it.
BEN SCOTT Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.
RALPH HODGSON In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
UNKNOWN Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! De...
MARION BARRY No, it is actually. Life and death are less life-and-death than love is." -Nora
TIFFANY REISZ The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more p...
GIORDANO BRUNO You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in th...
DONNY OSMOND I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
DAMIAN LEWIS In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, position...
JOHN QUELCH I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
JOHN CALVIN I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels
JOHN CALVIN Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
PATRICIA BRIGGS Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
MAHATMA GANDHI A disability that is not apparent in the person’s appearance is no less intrusive, no less painful...
SAHAR ABDULAZIZ September 11 is no less appalling today than it was then, on September 11. Our determination is no l...
TONY BLAIR Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
WALT WHITMAN A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise though...
DIODICUS The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
LEONARDO DA VINCI No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself o...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
ORSON F. WHITNEY No, it didn't hit him. [But] that pitch was more in and less up than the pitch to Duffy.
JOSH BARD There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - e...
ABIGAIL DISNEY The enlightened worry less than others,
quarrel less than others,
fight less than others,<...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contr...
DAVID HUME A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
T.S. ELIOT I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything el...
OSCAR WILDE We counted at least 60 dead on Tuesday, and on Wednesday no less than 20.
EMEKA UMEH I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUD The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficu...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
KIN HUBBARD Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
FRANK MCKINNEY “KIN” HUBBARD For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation thems...
JOHANN ARNDT To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
MAHATMA GANDHI It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the fil...
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL We had to work for the tie. They certainly deserved no less than a tie.
LEN LAVIN The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You’re so beautiful,” he says, dragging his hands through my hair. When our mouths meet, it’s ...
HEATHER LEIGH Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppres...
DERRICK A. BELL What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
CHARLES BABBAGE Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all
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ED BEGLEY, JR. The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down...
BRET EASTON ELLIS If we defend the title to our land or the sovereignty of our country, we do it for reasons no differ...
ROBERT ARDREY No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the gre...
EDGAR DEGAS It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the min...
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry,...
BARRY O'FARRELL The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object...
WILLIAM GODWIN There can be no deeper despair, no pain less easy to assuage, than losing a husband when you are you...
HéLèNE BERR There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
GEORGE BORROW i less than 4 you. [ ( because its bigger than 3 ) ]
MEGAN Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a v...
GEORGE SANTAYANA If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at s...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Habit is stronger than reason.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without bene...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA One real world is enough.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing with...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA