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The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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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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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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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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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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