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George Santayana Inspirational Quotes (276)

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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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