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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
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Fear first created the gods.
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For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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