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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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