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Fasionable Ideas

Posted on 27/06/2013 by layanglicana

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana 1863-1952 Winds of Doctrine (1913) The image is copyright: NREY via Shutterstock

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A Spider’s Web Of Machinery: George Santayana

Posted on 09/06/2013 by layanglicana

We live lost in a spider’s web of machinery, material and social, and don’t know what we are living for or how we manage to live at all. George Santayana The Letters of George Santayana

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Caricature: George Santayana

Posted on 28/05/2013 by layanglicana

All caricature need not be unkind; it may be tender, or even sublime. The distortion, the single emphasis, the extreme simplification  may reveal a soul which rhetoric and self-love had hidden in a false personality. The absurd is the naked … Continue reading →

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Fanaticism: Santayana

Posted on 03/03/2013 by layanglicana

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana 1863-1952 Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American … Continue reading →

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