Quote #57
Only the dead have seen an end to war. (Incorrectly attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur)
More from George Santayana
- Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.
- Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
- Sanity is madness put to good uses.
- Love makes us poets and the approach of death makes us philosophers.
- Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
- It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.