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The earth has music for those who listen.

The earth has music for those who listen.

George Santayana
Music, Encouragement, Art

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana
Dream, Art, Design
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana
Art, Philosophy, Dangerous
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

George Santayana
Art, Republican, Conversation
George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

George Santayana
Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

George Santayana
Art, Artist, Should
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.332, 谷月社

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana
Art, Interesting, Effort
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.320, 谷月社

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana
Art, Mathematics, Mathematical

Art is a delayed echo.

George Santayana
Art, Echoes, Art Is

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana
Art, History, Melancholy
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

George Santayana
Art, Queens, Passion
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

George Santayana
Life, Art, Peace
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.107, MIT Press

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.

George Santayana
Appreciation, Art, Passion

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
Football, Art, Kindness
George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.

George Santayana
Wise, Art, Believe
George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

George Santayana
Art, Imagination, Demand
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

George Santayana
Art, Stupid, Moving

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

George Santayana
Art, Men, Discipline
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.327, 谷月社

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

George Santayana
Song, Art, Math
George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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 .

George Santayana
Art, Men, Giving
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.84, MIT Press

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

George Santayana
Art, Reality, Spontaneous
George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

George Santayana
Art, Study, Occasions
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.135, Courier Corporation

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

George Santayana
Change, Art, Memories
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

George Santayana
Art, Pride, Skills

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