A Quote by George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Spanish - Novelist
December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

George Santayana

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Kate Beckinsale

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Henry David Thoreau

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

Maurice White

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Edward McKendree Bounds

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Remy de Gourmont

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

Kedar Joshi

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Bertrand Russell

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Fairfield Porter

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Giuseppe Mazzini

We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.

Alfie Kohn

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

Albert J. Nock

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