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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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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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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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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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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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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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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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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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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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One real world is enough.
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Fear first created the gods.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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