Quote #36
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 servants of their human interests.
More from George Santayana
- The living have never shown me how to live.
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
- 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…
- All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be …
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
- 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.