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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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Man is a fighting animal his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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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.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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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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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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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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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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