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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
George Santayana
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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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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Columbus gave the world another world.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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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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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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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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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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