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There are books in which the f...

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Nothing is really so poor and ...

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Progress, far from consisting ...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has

George Santayana 613 quotes

Heaven is to be at peace with ...

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Sex endows the individual with...

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

George Santayana 613 quotes

The earth has music for those ...

The earth has music for those who listen.

George Santayana 613 quotes

The loftiest edifices need the...

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Matters of religion should nev...

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Real unselfishness consists in...

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana 613 quotes

To be happy you must have take...

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

George Santayana 613 quotes

With you a part of me hath pas...

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater

George Santayana 613 quotes

Never have I enjoyed youth so ...

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more u

George Santayana 613 quotes

An artist may visit a museum b...

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Government is the political re...

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Towers in a modern town are a ...

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, 'Please strike here!

George Santayana 613 quotes

The aim of education is the co...

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

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Our occasional madness is less...

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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To drink in the spirit of a pl...

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

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Music is essentially useless, ...

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana 613 quotes

Unmitigated seriousness is alw...

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

George Santayana 613 quotes

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