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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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Man's most serious activity is play.
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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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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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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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 loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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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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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
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There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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