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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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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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Fear first created the gods.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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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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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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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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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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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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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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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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