Aestheticism Quotes by George Santayana

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• The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be…
• A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
• Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
• Habit is stronger than reason.
• Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.
• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
• If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…
• Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that…
• That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
• Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
• The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…

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