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George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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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.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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