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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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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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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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