George Santayana Quotes About Contemplation
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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