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
- Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Best Quotes
- In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
- I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
- How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
- My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
- I love marriage.