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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Fear first created the gods.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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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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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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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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The earth has music for those who listen.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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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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