The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

About George Santayana

George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

—George Santayana

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

—George Santayana

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

—George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

—George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

—George Santayana

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

—George Melton

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

—Eugene Delacroix

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

—E. M. Forster

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

—Cleobulus

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

—Cicero

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