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A simple life is its own reward.
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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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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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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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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