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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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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 soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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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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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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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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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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