For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Quote by George Santayana
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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George Santayana Quotes
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- Sanity is a madness put to good use.
- Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
- Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
- The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.