Today Quotes
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
Existence precedes and rules essence.Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
Hell is other people.Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)