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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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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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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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 feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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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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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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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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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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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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