GSGeorge Santayana

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George Santayana

Life dates: 1863 AD — 1952 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1907 AD

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

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02c. 1907 AD

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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03c. 1907 AD

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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04c. 1907 AD

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

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05c. 1907 AD

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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06c. 1907 AD

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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07c. 1907 AD

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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