Quote #29

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

More from George Santayana

  1. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
  2. The Bible is literature, not dogma.
  3. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
  4. England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
  5. When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind…
  6. The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
  7. History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were no…
  8. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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