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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the 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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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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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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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