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Dichter, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, "The Sense of Beauty", "The Life of Reason", "Dialogues in Limbo", "Three Philosophical Poets" (Spanien/USA, 1863 - 1952).

George de Santayana · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

George de Santayana wäre heute 161 Jahre, 4 Monate, 26 Tage oder 58.952 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.12.1863 in Madrid
Gestorben am 27.09.1952 in Rom
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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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

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• The heart has reasons of which the reason has no knowledge.

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• The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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• The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.

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• The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.

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• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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• The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine . . . If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

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• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself.

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.

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• To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

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• We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past, and we must respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was humanly possible.

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• What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

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• When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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• Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile and transitory? They are so; and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

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