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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.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana
Religious, Language, Speak

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

George Santayana
Men, Historical, Language
The Life of Reason vol. 3, ch. 1 (1905)

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

George Santayana
Language, Poet, Rhetorical
George Santayana (1955). “Letters”

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