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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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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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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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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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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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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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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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