Quote #33

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

More from George Santayana

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
  4. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
  5. The Bible is literature, not dogma.
  6. My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servan…
  7. The living have never shown me how to live.
  8. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

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