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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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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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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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