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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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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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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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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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One real world is enough.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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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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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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