What did George Santayana mean by: A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. George Santayana Copy
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Conclusions, Empiricism, Experience, 0 George Santayana
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Autonomy, Freedom, Identity, 0 George Santayana
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Choices, Consequences, Temptation, 0 George Santayana
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Artifice, Life, Truth, 0 George Santayana
+ A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Foolishness, Isolation, Revenge, 0 George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Awakening, Illusion, Truth., 0 George Santayana
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Disease, Instincts, Natural, 0 George Santayana
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Aging, Altruism, Growth, 0 George Santayana
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
