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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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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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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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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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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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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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.
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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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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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