Tag: George Santayana
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
George Santayana
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
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The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests.
George Santayana
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George Santayana
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana