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Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
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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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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all they express merely physical antipathies.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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Spirit itself is not human it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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