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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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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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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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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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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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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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