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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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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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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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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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A friend's only gift is himself.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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