George Santayana Quotes About Experience

Quotes about: Experience

• Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Conclusion, Draws

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Done, Sake

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Glimpse, Causes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

• What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1998). “The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

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