Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
George SantayanaIt is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana... 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 SantayanaWe should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
George Santayana