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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
George Santayana
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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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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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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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.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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