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George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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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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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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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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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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