Santayana's Selected Ideas.
The Selection below are from this work. §1 the quality of a thing. §4 Thus beauty is constituted by the objectification of pleasure. It is pleasure objectified. §5 Grammar, philosophically studied, is akin to the deepest metaphysics, because in revealing the constitution of speech, it reveals the constitution of thought, and the hierarchy of those categories by which we conceive the world. §6 Now, it is the essential privilege of beauty to so synthesise and bring to a focus the various impulses of the self, so to suspend them to a single image, that a great peace falls upon that perturbed kingdom. §7 Our religion is the poetry in which we believe. §8 Intense contemplation disentangles the ideal from the idol of sense, and a purified will rests in it as in the true object of worship ... those profounder spirits ... who can rise continually, by abstraction from personal sensibility, into identity with the eternal [T]he exclusively subjective and human department ...