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Habit is stronger than reason.
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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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
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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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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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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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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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