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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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One real world is enough.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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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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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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