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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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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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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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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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 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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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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