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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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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
George Santayana
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
George Santayana
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.
George Santayana
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
George Santayana
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana
Fear first created the gods.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
George Santayana
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
George Santayana
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
George Santayana
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
George Santayana
