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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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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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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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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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