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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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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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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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Fear first created the gods.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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