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A friend's only gift is himself.
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
George Santayana
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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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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Man's most serious activity is play.
George Santayana
