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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

George Santayana

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
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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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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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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 race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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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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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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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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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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It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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