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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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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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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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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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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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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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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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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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