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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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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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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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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 best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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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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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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