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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
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
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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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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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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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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
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