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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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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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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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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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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
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