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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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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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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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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 degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana
The world is not respectable it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
George Santayana
