... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
George SantayanaTo reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana