Santayana, George : (1863-1952), American philosopher, poet, critic, humanist.
... Rolland, Romain 4,5 Rose of God 42, US, 458 Roy, Dilip Kumar 462 Roy, Dwijendralal 45 Roy, Raja Rammohan 6 Samuel, Viscount 35 Santayana, George 266,372 Sarma,D.S. 33 Sartre, Jean-Paul 268 Sassoon, Siegfried 390 Savage, D.S. 34 Savitri - Need for the reverent study of, 56-57; ...
... E. M. Cocks (Seeker 8c Warburg, London, 1946). Sansom, Clive. (Ed.) The World of Poetry : Poets and Critics on Art and Functions of Poetry (Phoenix House, London, 1959). Santayana, George. Essays in Literary Criticism, Selected and edited by Irving Singer (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1956). Three Philosophical Poets : Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe ...
... if he is supreme his vision, like Dante's, always stretches to the stars. George Santayana Page 369 I The Problem An American Professor of Philosophy, Raymond Frank Piper, has referred to Savitri as "probably the greatest ...
... that myths, legends, symbols belong to the childhood of the human race, that humanity in its supposed present adulthood has no use for them, dies hard. But nothing can be further from the truth. George Santayana rightly points out that, "a good mythology cannot be produced without much culture and intelligence. Stupidity is not poetical...A developed mythology shows that man has taken a deep and active... It should be remembered that myths, legends and symbols shade into one another and they are the creations of man, especially poetic man, awake, alert, inquiring and responsive. A.E. (George Russell) wisely says: The myths were born Out of the spirit of man and drew their meaning From that unplumbed profundity... ...Yet from fleeting voices ...
... the end it is perhaps great in effort, but not great in success. Much material is there, many new suggestions, but not a work realised, not a harmoniously perfect whole. 30 December 1932 George Santayana There we live o'er, amid angelic powers, Our lives without remorse, as if not ours, And others' lives with love, as if our own; For we behold, from those eternal towers, The deathless... seasons hath the earth increase, And heaven shines as if the gods were there. Page 409 Had Dian passed there could no deeper peace Embalm the purple stretches of the air. George Santayana, the writer of these, is a Spaniard who has a post at Harvard—English is not his mother tongue. In spite of traditionalism and lack of any very individual or developed technique, is there not ...
... Its ruler is not God but Chance. In such a world when man dies his soul too dies. The range of the poem is as the universe's and the poet's manner as stately. "We seem to be reading," says George Santayana about this poem, "not the poetry of a poet about things, but the poetry of things themselves. That things have their poetry, not because of what we make them symbols of, but because of their ...
... is no education. He felt that the most important question that education for character development should raise is "What is life meant for?" "What is the purpose of life?" He also referred to George Santayana who had said that it is not enough to be wise, one should listen to the heart. Dr. Shakuntala Punjani said that the ancient gurukul system of education was an ideal system, and she felt that ...
... Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 PART IV From Death to Deathlessness: Lucretius and Sri Aurobindo George Santayana expects every great poet to be a philopher, a prophet and a seer: "The distinction of a poet—the dignity and humanity of his thought—can be measured by nothing, perhaps so well as by the diameter of the world in ...
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