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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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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 loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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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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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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One real world is enough.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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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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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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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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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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