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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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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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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
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