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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

~George Santayana

Topics: Intelligence Quickness Seeing Things

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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

~George Santayana

Topics: Cares Enslave Free Instruments Seldom Them Tyranny Tyrants

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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

~George Santayana

Topics: Dead Oxford Paradise Philosophies

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

~George Santayana

Topics: Death Done Duty His Man Natural Sleep Who

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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

~George Santayana

Topics: Body Interests Soul Voice

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

~George Santayana

Topics: Devil Force He Passion Revenge Sometimes Superior Suppressed Takes Them Themselves Think Very Virtuous

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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

~George Santayana

Topics: Difficulty Education Experience Get Great Ideas Out

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

~George Santayana

Topics: Friends Human Human Race Part Race Which

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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

~George Santayana

Topics: Conclusions Draw Experience Lead Most Never Seems Sworn Them Us

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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

Topics: Almost Always Another Friends Friendship Mind Part People Spots Union

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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