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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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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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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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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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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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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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