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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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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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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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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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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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