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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
Novelist
Philosopher
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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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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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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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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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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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