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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
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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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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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 there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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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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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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