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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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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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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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