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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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 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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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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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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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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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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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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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... 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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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