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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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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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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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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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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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