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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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
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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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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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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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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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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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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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