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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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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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The world is not respectable it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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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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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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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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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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