George Santayana Quotes About Beauty
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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.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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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.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
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