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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
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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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In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
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Heaven is to be at peace with things.
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Order, for a liberal, means only peace and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
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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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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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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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