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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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