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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
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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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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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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