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Fear first created the gods.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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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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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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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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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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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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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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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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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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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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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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