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George Santayana - From the Art category:
Art is delayed echo. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Art category:
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience – the union of life and peace. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Artists category:
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Beauty category:
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Books category:
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)
George Santayana - From the Change category:
Interest in the changing seasons is a much happier state of mind than being hopelessly in love with spring. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Creativity category:
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another, but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Effort category:
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Encouragement category:
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Experiments category:
Art, like life, should be free, since they are both experimental. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Fame category:
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Fashion category:
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Friendship category:
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Happiness category:
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Impossibilities category:
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Interest category:
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Life category:
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Life category:
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Music category:
Music is essentially useless, as life is, but both lend utility to their conditions. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Opposites category:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Peace category:
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Performance category:
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Philosophy category:
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Play category:
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Questions category:
Why should not things be largely absurd, futile and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and we and they go very well together. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Questions category:
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Subject category:
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. (George Santayana)
George Santayana - From the Wisdom category:
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. (George Santayana)
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