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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
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
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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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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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
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The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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