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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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why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view as to knowing her through and through that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
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Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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