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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
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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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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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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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