Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
George SantayanaExperience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
George SantayanaPhilosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
George Santayana