Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragi… - George Santayana

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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

George Santayana

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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.

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Alternative Names: Jorge Santayana • Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana • Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana • Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana

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