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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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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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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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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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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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One real world is enough.
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The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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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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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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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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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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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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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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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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