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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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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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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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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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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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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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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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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