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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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