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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
Essayist
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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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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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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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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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