Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
Quote by George Santayana
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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George Santayana Quotes
- Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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- I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
- We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.