George Santayana
"Art is a delayed echo."
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"Art is a delayed echo."
"الفن صدى متأخر."
George Santayana
"Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles."
"بوسطن مهدٌ أخلاقي وفكري، دائم الانشغال بتطبيق المبادئ الأولى على توافه الأمور."
George Santayana
"Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him."
"قبل أن تناقض شيخًا، يا صديقي العزيز، اجتهد في فهمه."
George Santayana
"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
"ما استمتعتُ بالشباب قطّ استمتاعي به في شيخوختي. ففي كتابتي "حوارات في النسيان" و"البيوريتاني الأخير"، والآن كل هذه الأوصاف لأصدقاء شبابي وأصدقائي الشباب في منتصف العمر، ارتويتُ من متعة الحياة أصفى وأبهج مما كانت عليه يومًا حين امتزجت بكل القلق الخفي والمنغصات الصغيرة للحياة الواقعية. لا شيء شابٌ بطبيعته ولا يقهر سوى الروح. والروح قد تسكن الإنسان ربما أفضل في هدوء الشيخوخة وتقيم فيه دون إزعاج أكثر مما تفعل في صخب المغامرة."
George Santayana
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
"الحكمة تتولد من خيبة الأمل."
George Santayana
"To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood."
"إن إسقاط شيء ما، لا سيما إن كان منتصبًا بزاوية متعجرفة، لهو بهجة عميقة تسري في الدم."
George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval."
"ليس لميلادنا ومماتنا من دواء إلا أن نستمتع بما بينهما."
George Santayana
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different."
"الأصدقاء غالبًا ما يكونون من الجنس نفسه؛ فإذا اتفق الرجال والنساء، فذلك في النتائج وحسب، أما أسبابهم فمختلفة دائمًا."
George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"ليس لداء الميلاد والموت من شفاء إلا أن نستمتع بالفترة الفاصلة بينهما."
George Santayana
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."
"ليس لداء الميلاد والموت من شفاء إلا الاستمتاع بالفاصل بينهما. فالخلفية المظلمة التي يوفرها الموت تبرز ألوان الحياة الرقيقة في أبهى نقائها."
George Santayana
"The man who is not permitted to own is owned."
George Santayana
"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."
George Santayana
"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
George Santayana
"The wisest mind hath something yet to learn."
George Santayana
"Depression is rage spread thin."
George Santayana
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
George Santayana
"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
George Santayana
"The earth has its music for those who will listen."
George Santayana
"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
George Santayana
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."
George Santayana
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