What did George Santayana mean by: If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. George Santayana Copy
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
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Madness, Sanity, Wonder, 0 George Santayana
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Happiness, Impermanence, Reason, 0 George Santayana
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Interpretation, Meaning, Nature, 0 George Santayana
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Harmony, Irrational, Reason, 0 George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Dualism, Perception, Reality, 0 George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Condemnation, Egotism, Intolerance, 0 George Santayana
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Freedom, Love, Truth, 0 George Santayana
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Jean-Georges Noverre Choreographer · France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
