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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
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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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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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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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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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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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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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