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Music is essentially useless, as is life.

~George Santayana

Topics: Essentially Life Music Useless

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

~George Santayana

Topics: Beginning Happiness Knowledge Possible

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

~George Santayana

Topics: About Dream Dreamer Even Except His Know Out Truth

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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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Events Feelings Form Giving Inner Means Music Objects Our Them Without World

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

~George Santayana

Topics: Degree Dignity End Exact His Imagination Importance In The End Measure Poet Reality Which

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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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Against Conventions Courtesy Doubts Far Kind Offense Our Polite Press Skepticism Too Would

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

~George Santayana

Topics: Capacity Despise Dignity Himself His Man Only Perhaps True

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

~George Santayana

Topics: Easier Make Out Saint Than

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

~George Santayana

Topics: Art Dangerous Love Philosophy

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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

~George Santayana

Topics: Because Expect Much Other Philosophers Severe Too Too Much Towards Very

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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