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

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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
Heresy
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Individualism
Individuality
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Humors
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Abnormality
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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.
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Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
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If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
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Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
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Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
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