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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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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Fear first created the gods.
George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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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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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
George Santayana
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
George Santayana
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
