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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

~George Santayana

Topics: Bible Dogma Literature

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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

~George Santayana

Topics: Angle Arrogant Blood Deep Delight Down Knock Thing

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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

~George Santayana

Topics: Design Eccentricity Graphic Graphic Design Heresy Hobbies Individuality Paradise

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

~George Santayana

Topics: Because Common Common Sense Good Limited Nonsense Only Sense

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

~George Santayana

Topics: Almost Balance Every Less Opposite Saying Wise

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

~George Santayana

Topics: Fool Laugh Man Older Savage Wept Who Will Young Young Man

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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.

~George Santayana

Topics: Caricature Contradiction Every Itself Mockery Moment Perpetual Pretending World

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

~George Santayana

Topics: Controlled Dreadful Geography Me Seems Soul

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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

~George Santayana

Topics: Bubble Last Long Soul World

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

~George Santayana

Topics: Age Green Inveterate Most Old Old Age Passions Pride Vigorous Wounded

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 16th, 1863

Died: September 26th, 1952

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