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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.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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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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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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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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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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One real world is enough.
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