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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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