Author Topic: ~ George Santayana Quotes ~ (Read 3317 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:40:56 AM »

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:41:32 AM »

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:42:02 AM »

England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:42:31 AM »

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:43:14 AM »

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:43:45 AM »

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:44:19 AM »

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:45:10 AM »

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:45:46 AM »

To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:46:19 AM »

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:46:51 AM »

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:47:57 AM »

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:48:31 AM »

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:49:03 AM »

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:49:34 AM »

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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