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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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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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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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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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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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