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
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
- It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- 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.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Best Quotes
- It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
- I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
- Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
- The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
- You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.
- Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
- The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?