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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
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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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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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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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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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