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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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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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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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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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