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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Life
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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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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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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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 love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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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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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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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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