Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers were uniform (though some had brass buttons): "Comrade Stalin has spoken with his great wisdom once more...
...best thing about Yes is its hard, humorous understanding and worldly wisdom. Playwright Stein ridicules rather than berates the Pétainists, particularly when they try at the end to come over to the winning side. Notably Gallic is her mention of the collaborationist shopkeeper who was dead sure the Germans would win but had kept his assortment of little French, British and U.S. flags-just in case. Miss Stein jabs at obedience ("Obedient people must sooner or later follow a bad leader") and at discipline ("It is the unsuccessful people in the world who want to discipline everybody...
...Myth. In Reason in Religion (1905) and Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923), Santayana had tried to strip life of all illusion - which included religion - and then proposed that the reader "entertain the illusion without succumbing to it." He held that religions were myths but that myths embodied great wisdom...
Having come almost full circle, Santayana now embraces most Christian doctrine as superior, because truer, than the wisdom of his beloved Greek philosophers (several of whose concepts, he says, the Christian theologians improved upon...
...believes that belief in immortality can be freed from "popular or philosophic errors" and yet preserve "the wisdom of the Catholic doctrine of the soul, its moral and spiritual soundness, with the idea of Christ for its model...