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George Santayana

George Santayana föddes den 16 december 1863 och dog den 26 september 1952 - spansk-amerikansk filosof, författare och kritiker.
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

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.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

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

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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Depression is rage spread thin.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular

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To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful

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