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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
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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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The earth has music for those who listen.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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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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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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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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