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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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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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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Fear first created the gods.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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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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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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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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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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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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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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