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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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A friend's only gift is himself.
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One real world is enough.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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