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
- Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- 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.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
- The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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