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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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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University Teacher
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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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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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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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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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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.
George Santayana
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
George Santayana
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
