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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
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Fear first created the gods.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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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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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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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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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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