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Man's most serious activity is play.

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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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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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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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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