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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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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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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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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 aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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