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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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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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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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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.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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