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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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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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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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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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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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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 brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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The world is not respectable it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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