Logo
Quote by George Santayana
The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in t

The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana

Category:
Art
Author
George Santayana
Read Quote

By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana

Category:
Nature
Author
George Santayana
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

Category:
Imagination

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. – Terry Wogan

Category:
Imagination

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels. – Julianna Baggott

Category:
Imagination

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained. – Nicolas Manetta

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Fish, Fishing

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

Category:
Violence

I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine the Great

Category:
Leadership

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
work