George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

age

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana

alone

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

art

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

art

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

art

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana

art

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

beauty

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

best

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

change

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

courage

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