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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
George Santayana
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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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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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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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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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