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Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
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... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected it is recognised and obeyed.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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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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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.
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Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
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The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.
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Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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