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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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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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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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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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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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