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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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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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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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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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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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