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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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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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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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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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