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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
Fun
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Nothing
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Good
Spoils
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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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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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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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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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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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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