Quote #61
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
More from George Santayana
- Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
- The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
- Sanity is madness put to good uses.
- The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
- Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.
- The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
- Only the dead have seen an end to war. (Incorrectly attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur)
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.