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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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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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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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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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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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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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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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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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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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