Quote by George Santayana Download Open image ““To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image