To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle…

George Santayana
288 citations
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.51, MIT Press
Humanity Life Reading
23

More Author Quotes

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.108, 谷月社
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.33, 谷月社
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 and La … ▶

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two, p.51, MIT Press

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes