Frasi di George Santayana
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George Santayana, nato Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás , è stato un filosofo, scrittore, poeta e saggista spagnolo, rappresentante del cosiddetto realismo critico. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dicembre 1863 – 26. Settembre 1952
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George Santayana frasi celebri

“La musica è essenzialmente inutile, come la vita.”

da The Life of Reason, 1905
The Life of Reason

George Santayana Frasi e Citazioni

“Solo i morti hanno visto la fine della guerra.”

da Soliliquies in England, 1924
Origine: Questa citazione è stata erroneamente attribuita a Platone nell'incipit del film Black Hawk Down. Cfr. Luigi Mascheroni, Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre. Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html, Il Giornale, 21 marzo 2009, p. 22.

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“I miracoli sono incidenti propizi, le cui cause naturali sono troppo complesse perché si possano facilmente capire.”

da Introduzione all'Etica di Spinoza; citato in Elena Spagnol, Citazioni, Garzanti, 2003

“La Bibbia è letteratura, non dogma.”

da Introduzione all'Etica di Spinoza

“La teoria ci aiuta a sorreggere la nostra ignoranza sui fatti.”

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 117, pag. 183.

“Il fanatismo consiste nel raddoppiare gli sforzi quando si è dimenticato l'obiettivo.”

da The Life of Reason, 1905; citato in David Allen, Detto, Fatto!, Sperling & Kupfer, 2006, pag. 66. ISBN 9788820041090
The Life of Reason

“Un artista è un sognatore che acconsente di sognare il mondo reale.”

Origine: Da The Life of Reason; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni.

George Santayana: Frasi in inglese

“All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.”

"Materialism and Idealism" p. 175 ( Hathi Trust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3923968?urlappend=%3Bseq=191)
Character and Opinion in the United States (1920)

“Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor.”

Origine: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. XIV

“Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.”

Origine: The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 58

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

“Santayana, indeed, is the Moses of the new naturalism, who discerned the promised land from afar but still wanders himself in the desert realms of being.”

John Herman Randall, "The Nature of Naturalism", epilogue to Naturalism and the Human Spirit (1944)
Misattributed

“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.”

"The British Character"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

“The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.”

"Normal Madness," Ch. 3, P. 56 http://books.google.com/books?id=apSwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+soul+too+has+her+virginity+and+must+bleed+a+little+before+bearing+fruit%22&pg=PA56#v=onepage
Dialogues in Limbo (1926)

“[The empiricist] thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.”

George Santayana libro Scepticism and Animal Faith

"Objections to Belief in Substance", p. 201
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923)

“Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.”

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. IV, Reason in Art

“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”

Ch. VI: Free Society http://books.google.com/books?id=ICAsAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+men+and+women+agree+it+is+only+in+their+conclusions+their+reasons+are+always+different%22&pg=PA148#v=onepage
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society

“The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.”

Giorgio de Santillana (1902-1974) The Crime of Galileo http://books.google.com/books?id=34uQ6tlYHRgC&q=%22The+working+of+great+administrations+is+mainly+the+result+of+a+vast+mass+of+routine+petty+malice+self-interest+carelessness+and+sheer+mistake+Only+a+residual+fraction+is+thought%22&pg=PA290#v=onepage (1958)
Many sources mistakenly attribute this quote to Santayana, and one http://books.google.com/books?id=e4tzpkw4caAC&q=%22The+working+of+great+institutions+is+mainly+the+result+of+a+vast+mass+of+routine+petty+malice+self-interest+carelessness+and+sheer+mistake+Only+a+residual+fraction+is+thought%22&pg=PA283#v=onepage even identifies the correct book, without realizing that George Santayana and Giorgio de Santillana are two different people
Misattributed

“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”

Origine: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. III: Industry, Government, and War

“Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.”

"The British Character"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

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