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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Fear first created the gods.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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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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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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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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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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