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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
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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
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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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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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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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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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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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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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