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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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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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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in 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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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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