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“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
― The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
― Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
― Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
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“Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.”
― Nothing's Sacred
― Nothing's Sacred
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
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