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George Santayana — Portrait after a picture by Artist: Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880-1948). Time magazine (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

1863–1952

22 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Philosophy and Truth & Lies.

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), pp. 48-49
- Philosophy
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
- Philosophy
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
- Life & Death
- Philosophy

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