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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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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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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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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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