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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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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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Columbus gave the world another world.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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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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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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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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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
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Docility is the observable half of reason.
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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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