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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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A friend's only gift is himself.
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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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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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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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To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation to elude oneself is the romantic.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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