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One real world is enough.

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
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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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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Art is a delayed echo.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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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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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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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Beauty is objectified pleasure.
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