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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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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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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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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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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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