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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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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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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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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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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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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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