Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
Quote by George Santayana
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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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.
- To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- 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.
- 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.
- For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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