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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.
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
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Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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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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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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