More from George Santayana

  1. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
  2. England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
  3. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
  4. 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.
  5. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
  6. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  7. When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind…
  8. I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possess…

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