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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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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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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
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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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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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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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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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