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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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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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Fear first created the gods.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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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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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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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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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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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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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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