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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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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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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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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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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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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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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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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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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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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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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