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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
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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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A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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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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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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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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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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