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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
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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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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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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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