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George Santayana

George Santayana

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
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