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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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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.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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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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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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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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Columbus gave the world another world.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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