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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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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 more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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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 great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
George Santayana
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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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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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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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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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
George Santayana
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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