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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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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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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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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 rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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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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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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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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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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Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
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