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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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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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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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.
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One real world is enough.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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