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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

George Santayana

 

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

 Advertising American Philosopher

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Atheism

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

George Santayana

 

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

 America American Philosopher

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

George Santayana

 History Theater

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

 American Philosopher Chaos

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms.

George Santayana

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