A Quote by George Santayana

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

George Santayana

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

All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.

Emile Borel

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Abraham Lincoln

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

Linda Sunshine

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

Otto Weininger

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

Anna Garlin Spencer

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashley Montagu

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Simon Winchester

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Honore de Balzac

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.

Samuel Johnson

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

Jane Ridley

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T. E. Lawrence

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is a truth universally acknowledged that M. Dirda is a sucker for anything bookish in the way of artwork.

Michael Dirda

In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by the intellect and the soul of the world, rather than the One.

Peter Adamson

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