George Santayana

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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."	Economics, School
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."	Art
"Art is delayed echo."	Art
"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."	Age
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Philosophy
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots."	Wisdom
"Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman."	Economics, History
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."	Fear
"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."	Facts
"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."	Miscellaneous
"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."	Quotations
"Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself."	Wisdom
"Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions."	Love, Conformity
"Memory itself is an internal rumour."	Memory
"My atheism is true to the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their image, to be servants of their human interests."	Fear
"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."	Philosophy
"Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."	Art
"Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."	God, Character
"Sanity is madness put to good uses."	Economics, Sanity
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."	Science
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