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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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