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George Santayana
- The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper... George Santayana {view}
- Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.... George Santayana {view}
- For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.... George Santayana {view}
- Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.... George Santayana {view}
- Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.... George Santayana {view}
- Work and love -- these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.... George Santayana {view}
- Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should makes us philosophers... George Santayana {view}