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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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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Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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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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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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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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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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