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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

~George Santayana

Topics: Absolutely Any Anywhere Evil Existence Optimism Ruins Time Total

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

~George Santayana

Topics: Air Breathe Insufficient Like Live Necessary Society

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

~George Santayana

Topics: Cannot Common Common Denominator Denominator Exist Felt Language Like May Money Reduced Relative Specific Values Well Which Without

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

~George Santayana

Topics: False Hunger Philosophy Root Wisdom

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

~George Santayana

Topics: Anything Brief Could Created Fear First Gods Great Perhaps Subject True

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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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Absent Cannot Devour Eating Embrace Expect Knowledge Mean Possess Recognition Salutation Something We Cannot

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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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Because Consistent Easier Fact False In Fact Made Master Philosophy Pleases Possible Simple Than Truth

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

~George Santayana

Topics: Articles Change Conception Consumption Currency Daily Experience Fraud Like Small Symbol

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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