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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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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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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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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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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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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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