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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.

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
George Santayana
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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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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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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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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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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There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
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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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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
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