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A Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás in Madrid, December 16, 1863; died September 26, 1952, in Rome) was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. However, in his early fifties, Santayana left his position at Harvard and moved to Europe, never to return to the United States. His last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon in Rome.
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Art is a delayed echo.
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Habit is stronger than reason.
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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It is wisdom to believe the heart.
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The Bible is literature not dogma.
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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To me it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
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There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
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If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
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Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
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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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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
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Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
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If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
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Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
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Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
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A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
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My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
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Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
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To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
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Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.