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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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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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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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Fear first created the gods.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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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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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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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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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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