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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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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 more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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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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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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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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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate 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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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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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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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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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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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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