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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
George Santayana
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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To fight is a radical instinct if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
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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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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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The arts must study their occasions they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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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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Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.
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