Quote #31

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.

More from George Santayana

  1. The Bible is literature, not dogma.
  2. 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.
  3. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
  4. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  5. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
  6. 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…
  7. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
  8. Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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