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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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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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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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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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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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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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 tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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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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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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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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