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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
Novelist
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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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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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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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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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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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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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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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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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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