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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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A simple life is its own reward.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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Fear first created the gods.
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
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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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What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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