Occupation: Philosopher Birth: December 16, 1863 Death: September 26, 1952
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it..
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanl….
Man's most serious activity is play..
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a mic….
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment..
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say..
A country without a memory is a country of madmen..
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there..
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim..
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are..
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the con….
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about..
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it..
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opi….
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and h….
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it..
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal..
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt..
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.