To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations.George Santayana
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.... What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word
George Santayana
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