#only

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

#agree #always #conclusions #different #friends

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

#common #common sense #good #limited #nonsense

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#die #discover #end #in the end #living

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic system #form #government #illusion #live

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#backyard #bad #consider #doctrines #empire

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#because #everything #forgiving #house #i