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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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