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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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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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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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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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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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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 fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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