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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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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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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
George Santayana
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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