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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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
George Santayana
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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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Music is essentially useless, as is life.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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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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Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.
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We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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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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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 man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
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Fear first created the gods.
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