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George Santayana
George Santayana

A philosopher, literary, poet and cultural critic, George Santayana is considered one of the most important and influential Hispanic-American philosophers in modern times. He was a naturalist long before there were naturalists, and his observations, musings and writings affected both sides of the Atlantic. During his lifetime, he is said to have updated Aristotle and managed to naturalize …

Date of Birth: December 16, 1863
Date of Death: September 26, 1952
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George Santayana

"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." — George Santayana
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"As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends." — George Santayana
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots." — George Santayana
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"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different." — George Santayana
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"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." — George Santayana
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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." — George Santayana
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"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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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." — George Santayana
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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." — George Santayana
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned" — George Santayana
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"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway" — George Santayana
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"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated." — George Santayana
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"It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well." — George Santayana
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication." — George Santayana
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"The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations." — George Santayana
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"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." — George Santayana
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"The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family." — George Santayana
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"The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger" — George Santayana
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"Wealth, religion and military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth." — George Santayana
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"There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with." — George Santayana
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"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful." — George Santayana
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