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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
George Santayana
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
George Santayana
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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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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One real world is enough.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
George Santayana
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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Fear first created the gods.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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