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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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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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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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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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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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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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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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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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