George Santayana Quotes About Eternity
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
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All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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George Santayana
- Born: December 16, 1863
- Died: September 26, 1952
- Occupation: Philosopher