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Beauty is objectified pleasure.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

George Santayana
Beauty, Pleasure

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

George Santayana
Beauty, Environment, Harmony
George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana
Beauty, Self Esteem, Mean
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.163, Courier Corporation

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana
Love, Beauty, Wisdom
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana
Beauty, Beautiful, Taste
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.40, Рипол Классик

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

George Santayana
Beauty, Beautiful, Suggestions
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

George Santayana
Beauty, Beautiful, All Things
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

George Santayana
Beauty, Honored
George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

George Santayana
Beauty, Past, Comfort
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.118, MIT Press

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

George Santayana
Beauty, Perfection, Missing
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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