#only

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#begins #everything #future #in the past #living

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ↗

— George Santayana

#educated #only #school #uneducated

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #fun #good #good thing #nothing

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

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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