George Santayana
"The earth has its music for those who will listen."
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"The earth has its music for those who will listen."
"للأرض أنغامها لمن يصغي."
George Santayana
"Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."
"من لا يتذكر الماضي، محكوم عليه أن يعيشه من جديد."
George Santayana
The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
"في اليونان، الحكماء ينطقون والفُسَّاق يحكمون."
George Santayana
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
"إن الجوع إلى الحكمة السهلة هو أصل كل فلسفة زائفة."
George Santayana
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"ما من حكمة إلا ولها نقيض لا يقل عنها عم"
George Santayana
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
"إن الصعوبة الكبرى في التربية تكمن في استخلاص الخبرة من الأفكار."
George Santayana
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots."
"الصداقة غالبًا ما تكون ائتلاف شطر من"
George Santayana
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"الفنان حالمٌ يرضى أن يحلم بالعالم الواقعي."
George Santayana
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"إن مدى سيطرة خيال الشاعر على الواقع هو، في نهاية المطاف، المعيار الدقيق لأهميته ومكانته."
George Santayana
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
"تصميم الجرافيك هو جنة الفردية، والغرابة، والهرطقة، والشذوذ، والهوايات، والمزاجات."
George Santayana
"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
"إنها لمهانة فظيعة، في نظري، أن تكون الروح أسيرة الجغرافيا."
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."
"إن الابتهاج بالحرب فضيلة في الجندي، وصفة خطيرة في القائد، وجريمة صريحة في رجل الدولة."
George Santayana
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"إن كلمة "تجربة" كقذيفة شظايا، تنفجر إلى ألف معنى."
George Santayana
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
"تبدو التجربة لمعظمنا طريقًا إلى استنتاجات، لكن المذهب التجريبي أقسم ألا يستخلصها قط."
George Santayana
"Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
"العلم ليس طعامًا نلتهمه، ولا يسعنا أن"
George Santayana
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"التاريخ حزمة أكاذيب عن أحداث لم تقع قط، يرويها أناس لم يكونوا حاضرين."
George Santayana
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"من لا يتذكر الماضي محكوم عليه أن يعيشه من جديد."
George Santayana
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"الأصدقاء غالبًا ما يكونون من الجنس نفسه، فإذا اتفق الرجال والنساء، فذلك لا يكون إلا في النتائج؛ أما أسبابهم فدائمًا مختلفة."
George Santayana
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
"عندما يتفق الرجال والنساء، فذلك في النتائج وحسب؛ أما أسبابهم فدائمًا متباينة."
George Santayana
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
"THOUGHTS: The user wants an eloquent Arabic (Fusha) translation of the English quote: "Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
I need to capture the essence and poetic tone, not just a literal translation.
Key concepts:
- "Wealth, religion, military victory": These are the subjects.
- "rhetorical worth": Implies superficial, performative, for show, for talk, for persuasion rather than substance.
- "efficacious worth": Implies actual, practical, effective, substantial, real impact.
- "more ... than ...": This comparative structure needs to be maintained.
Let's break down potential Arabic equivalents for the key phrases:
1. **"Wealth, religion, military victory"**:
* المال، الدين، النصر العسكري
* الثروة، الدين، الغلبة العسكرية
* الغنى، الدين، الظفر الحربي
* "المال والدين والنصر العسكري" seems most direct and natural. "الثروة" is also good for wealth. "الغلبة العسكرية" or "الظفر الحربي" are good for military victory. I'll lean towards "المال والدين والنصر العسكري" for clarity and common usage.
2. **"rhetorical worth"**:
* قيمة بلاغية (literal, but maybe too academic)
* قيمة خطابية (good, implies speech/discourse)
* قيمة لفظية (verbal, but might miss the persuasive aspect)
* قيمة ظاهرية (superficial, but misses the "talk" aspect)
* قيمة جدلية (for debate, but not quite)
* "قيمة خطابية" or "قيمة بلاغية" are strong contenders."
George Santayana
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