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Columbus gave the world another world.
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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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
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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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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
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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.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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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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. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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One real world is enough.
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