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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Life of Reason
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, Dominations and Powers
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Life of Reason
Beauty is objectified pleasure.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Sense of Beauty
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Sense of Beauty
Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Sense of Beauty
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
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