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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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One real world is enough.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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