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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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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Philosopher
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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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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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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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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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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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