Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George SantayanaMusic is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
George SantayanaMen have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
George SantayanaTo most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.
George Santayana