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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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The world is not respectable it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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