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Into Quotes by George Santayana
- The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
- The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's…
- The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually…
- Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light…
- Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it…
- Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
- The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
- We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge…
- History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and…
- Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,…
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