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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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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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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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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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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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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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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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