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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
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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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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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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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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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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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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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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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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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
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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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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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