To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to fee…

George Santayana
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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. ✨ George Santayana (2004). The Sense of Beauty, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
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