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George Santayana


Spanish
December 16, 1863
Philosopher
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Sanity is madness put to good use.


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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.


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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.


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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.


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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.


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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.


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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.


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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.


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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey 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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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
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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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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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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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