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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 mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
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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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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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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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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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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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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
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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