Improve your English with Santayana

Take a look at these two crazy sentences by G. Santayana, a philosopher famous both for his philosophy and his English. You can think of the style he uses, the vocabulary, grammar, and rhythm – all employed in each of these two sentences, not to mention the messages he formulates here. All this makes this language very rich and sophisticated, which, for some readers may be unbearable though.  Feel free to tell me what you think.

“1. Any madcap can mimic a clown’s antics, cleverly taking the mad words out of his mouth and telling him what he might be fool enough to think before he has been fool enough to think it.”

“2. Red tape accordingly would be entirely stultified and eviscerated if it were not suffered to be all that modern criticism, inspired as it is by a subjective and psychological philosophy, most thoroughly dislikes.”