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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.
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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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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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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Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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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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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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