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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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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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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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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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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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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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