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Things Quotes by George Santayana
- To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
- Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
- The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it…
- Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
- Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy,…
- Heaven is to be at peace with things.
- The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and…
- It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
- If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
- Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,…
- There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves…
- A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted…
- 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,…
- It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
- why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
- Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle