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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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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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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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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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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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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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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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