Tag: George Santayana
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana
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The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana
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A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana