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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
By George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
By George Santayana
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.
By George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
By George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
By George Santayana
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
By George Santayana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
By George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
By George Santayana
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
By George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
By George Santayana
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
By George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
By George Santayana
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
By George Santayana
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
By George Santayana
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
By George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
By George Santayana
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
By George Santayana
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
By George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
By George Santayana