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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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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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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 there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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