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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
George Santayana
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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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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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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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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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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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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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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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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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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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