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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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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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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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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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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 existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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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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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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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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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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