George Santayana Quote

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.


The philosophy of Santayana (ed. Random House, 1936)


The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life,...

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life,...

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life,...

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life,...