Author Topic: ~ George Santayana Quotes ~  (Read 3311 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« 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.

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« Reply #31 on: August 14, 2014, 11:41:32 AM »
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

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« Reply #32 on: August 14, 2014, 11:42:02 AM »
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

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« Reply #33 on: August 14, 2014, 11:42:31 AM »
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.

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« 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.