The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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George Santayana
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About George Santayana
George Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George SantayanaExperience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.