George Santayana

Madrid
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11 November 2014
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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11 November 2014
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
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11 November 2014
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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11 November 2014
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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11 November 2014
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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11 November 2014
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
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11 November 2014
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
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11 November 2014
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
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11 November 2014
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
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11 November 2014
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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