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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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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
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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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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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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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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
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The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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