Spanish - Philosopher | December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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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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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
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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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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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