Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
George SantayanaSociety itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
George SantayanaIt is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
George Santayana