#see

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

#altogether #ape #drunkard #human #irrational

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#created #germans #had #jab #life

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

— George Santayana

#draw #empiricism #experience #lead #most

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#certain #choices #community #experience #habits

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #i think #people #see #think

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#choice #down #either #extension #family

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

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