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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
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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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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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 loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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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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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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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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