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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

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 love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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