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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
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Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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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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One real world is enough.
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American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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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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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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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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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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