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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
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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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A simple life is its own reward.
George Santayana
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George Santayana
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George Santayana
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
George Santayana
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
George Santayana
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
George Santayana
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
George Santayana
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
George Santayana
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
George Santayana
