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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
Philosopher
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
Senses
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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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 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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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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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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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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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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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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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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O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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