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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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
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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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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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One real world is enough.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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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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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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