George Santayana Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• 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

• 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 is objectified pleasure.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Pleasure

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• 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

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