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“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”

George Santayana · Experience

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George Santayana

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

Beauty

George Santayana

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Patriotism

George Santayana

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Loneliness

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.

Art