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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Lovers and Philosophers
George Santayana |
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." |
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Spanish Philosopher |
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Best known for his esoteric philosophy, Santayana’s career involved an unusual mixture of academic philosophy, teaching, literary criticism and popular writing. The best known among his 18 volumes of poetry include the 5 volume “Life of Reason” (1905-6) and the 4 volume “The Realms of Being” (1927-40). He often analyzed the work of poets such as Browning, Dante, and Goethe to illustrate philosophical points. He was known as a gifted teacher at Harvard, where his students included T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Felix Frankfurter. He also wrote a best selling novel, “The Last Puritan” (1935) about Cambridge, Massachusetts society. At the end of his life – in his 80s, nearly deaf and half-blind – he was working on a translation of Lorenzo de’Medici’s love poem, “Ambra”.
Born in Madrid to Spanish parents, Santayana never relinquished his Spanish citizenship, although he spent most of his life in America and he wrote in English, his second language. Educated at Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin, Santayana joined the Harvard faculty in 1889. In 1912 his mother died and Santayana resigned from Harvard. Despite his success and acceptance at Harvard, he was never comfortable with academia or, for that matter, America. He spent the rest of his life writing and living in Europe, primarily in Oxford and Rome. He died in Rome at age 89.
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