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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

~George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

~George Santayana

Topics: Art Effort Eternal Existence Interesting Keep Recreate

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

~George Santayana

Topics: About Absolute Any Beauty Disguise Good Knows Latter Lover Lovers More Much Than Theologian Too Universal Unless

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Oaths are the fossils of piety.

~George Santayana

Topics: Fossils Piety

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

~George Santayana

Topics: Learn Mind Something Wisest

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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

~George Santayana

Topics: Bursts Experience Like Meanings Shell Thousand Word

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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

~George Santayana

Topics: Ages Belong Breed Does Free Gather Germany Humane Middle Middle Ages Philosophers Proper Reflection Tendency Universities

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

~George Santayana

Topics: Existence Experiment Fails Happiness Life Mad Only Remains Sanction Where

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

~George Santayana

Topics: Any Chaos Confusion Minds Name Order Our Produces

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

~George Santayana

Topics: About Events Happened History Lies Never Pack People Were Who

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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