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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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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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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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