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“Beauty is objectified pleasure.”

Quote by George Santayana

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George Santayana

George Santayana was an American philosopher, essayist, and critic renowned for his unique philosophical thoughts and profound insights into culture, art, and science. His philosophy emphasizes individualism, naturalism, and pragmatism, and his works have had a profound impact on 20th-century philosophy and culture. more

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“History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.”

Memories History

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.”

Heart Stars Felt Peace Sorrow Naked Garments Rapture Not Happy Afar

Book:The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

“Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.”

Ideas Philosophy Cases Study Illusion Philosopher Lawyer Detectives Eloquent

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.”

Doubt Criticism Profound Conventions Skepticism

Author:George Santayana

“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.”

Passion Raised Recognition Contemplation

Book:The Sense of Beauty

Source: 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.”

Kind May Art Age School Certain Passion Conditions Creation Type Capacity Appreciate Appreciation Enjoyment Jealous Exclusive Incapacity

Author:George Santayana

“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”

Men Seems Missing Faults Vocation

Book:The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.”

Seems Existence Impossible

Author:George Santayana

“I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”

World Made Heaven Sound Echoes Exile

Book:The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition

“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”

Men Giving Art Moral Solitude Aim Imaginative Art And Science Science Religion

Book:The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two