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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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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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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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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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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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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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A simple life is its own reward.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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