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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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