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• Men create the gods in their own image. -- Xenophane
• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -- George Santayana
• Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous.
  -- George Santayana...
• What's he like? Well, according to Who's Who, his interests include flogging servants, shooting poor people, and the extension of slavery to anyone who hasn't got a knighthood.
  -- George and Edmund : Dish and Dishonesty...
• men say the gods have a king because they themselves either are or were in ancient times under the rule of a king
  For they imagine not only the form of the gods, but their ways of life to be like their own....
• When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Serva...
• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. -- George Santayana
• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
• Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. -- George Santayana