Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
George SantayanaIf artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
George SantayanaAdvertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George SantayanaMusic contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
George SantayanaLogic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.
George Santayana