If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics. George Santayana More Quotes by George Santayana More Quotes From George Santayana That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. George Santayana aging assumption impossible Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental. George Santayana artist should art The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. George Santayana occasions study art To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful. George Santayana all-things beautiful beauty To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. George Santayana judgment criticism facts The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands. George Santayana perfection missing beauty With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me. George Santayana heart memories country There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself. George Santayana sacred passion way A simple life is its own reward. George Santayana rewards simple life-is We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together. George Santayana dating enough together Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. George Santayana dying evil death Heaven is to be at peace with things. George Santayana inner-peace heaven All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. George Santayana doctrine time men Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty? George Santayana powerful love sex 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. George Santayana passion knowing religion The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. George Santayana tragedy two lying If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation. George Santayana hate opportunity men The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. George Santayana affinity emotional feelings Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. George Santayana harmony philosophy peace Memory... is an internal rumor. George Santayana rumor internals memories
