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Quotations by author » George Santayana
Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine
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The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
LearningMind
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
BeautyHopeLaughterLife
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
Men
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts
FactsIgnoranceTheory
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce
Mankind
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
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Those who cannot remember the past,
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Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Failure
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired
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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.
Seasons
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