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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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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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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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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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