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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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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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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
George Santayana
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George Santayana
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
George Santayana
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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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.
George Santayana
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
George Santayana
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
George Santayana
