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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
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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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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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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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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
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