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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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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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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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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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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