More from George Santayana

  1. Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
  2. 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…
  3. 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 …
  4. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
  5. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
  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. Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.
  8. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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