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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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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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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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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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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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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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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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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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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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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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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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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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