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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Mind
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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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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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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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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 wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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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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One real world is enough.
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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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