Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Quote by George Santayana
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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George Santayana Quotes
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
- Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
- Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
- 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.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Best Quotes
- When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
- Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
- I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
- What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?