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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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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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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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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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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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One real world is enough.
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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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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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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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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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