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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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Fear first created the gods.
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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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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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