Quote #34

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

More from George Santayana

  1. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  2. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
  3. 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.
  4. 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…
  5. The living have never shown me how to live.
  6. England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
  7. Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
  8. The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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