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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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
George Santayana
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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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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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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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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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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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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