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The earth has music for those who listen.
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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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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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.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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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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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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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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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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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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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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