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George Santayana Quotes

«To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried»
«Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said»
«The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular»
«To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful»
«Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment»
Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Greatness | Keywords: mud
«Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject»
«Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean»
«Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy»
«The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.»
«Wealth, religion and military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.»