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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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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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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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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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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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