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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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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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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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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?
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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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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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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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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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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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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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