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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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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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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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