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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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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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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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