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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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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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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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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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.
George Santayana
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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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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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
George Santayana
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
George Santayana
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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