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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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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.
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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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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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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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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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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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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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