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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Spain
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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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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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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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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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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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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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 tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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One real world is enough.
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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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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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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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