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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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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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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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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One real world is enough.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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