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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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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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A simple life is its own reward.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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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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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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