The Resume

(December 16, 1863-September 26, 1952)
Birth name was Jorge Agustín Nicolás de Santayana
Wrote 'The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel,' 'Persons And Places,' 'Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe,' 'Interpretations of Poetry and Religion,' 'Skepticism and Animal Faith' and 'The Life of Reason'

Why he might be annoying:

Many were upset with him for choosing to live in Italy while Benito Mussolini was in power.
He disliked heterosexuality and referred to heterosexual sex as 'breeding.'
He hated Germany because he believed it to be the home of idealism (the belief that everything that exists is mind dependant).
He was a conservative.
He was a pragmatist.

Why he might not be annoying:

Although he did not know any English at nine (when his family moved to the US), he mastered it by the time that he was an adult and wrote poetry and a novel in it.
He studied at Harvard and Cambridge.
Although he was a Christian, he believed in naturalism.
He was on February 3, 1936 cover of 'Time' magazine.
'Persons and Places' and 'The Last Puritan' were Book-of-the-Month Club selections.
T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost were students of his.
Although he disagreed with him on just about everything, he was good friends with Bertrand Russell and gave him an anonymous gift of $25,000 when Russell was denied a teaching position.

Credit: Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
• I Attended Cambridge
• I Attended Harvard
• I Died in 1952 (Ranked: 89)
• I Earned a Doctorate
• Nihilism Cynicism Sarcasm Orgasm's Profiles [Series 1]
• Philosophers: 20th Century [1900-2000]
• Profiles 6751-7000 (Ranked: 6832)
• Sixty-Nine
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19520926)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 27 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 42.42% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 30 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 70 Votes: 67.14% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 110 Votes: 61.82% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 181 Votes: 69.61% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 298 Votes: 65.77% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 437 Votes: 55.15% Annoying