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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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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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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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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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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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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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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
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