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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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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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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
George Santayana
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
George Santayana
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
George Santayana
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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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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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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