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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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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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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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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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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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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Memory itself is an internal rumour and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
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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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One real world is enough.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
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