- To understand everything is to hate nothing. --
Romain Rolland (1866... - If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?
Dagobert D. Runes (1902... - Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion,
by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense... - Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905... - The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we
say that science alone is capable of verification.
George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905... - To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they
will fight over word,
fancies, or women, or they will fight because they... - There is no sure cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863-1952) "Soliloquies in England"... - Our country right or wrong! When right, to be kept right;
when wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz (1829... - Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
The tragedy of man is what dies inside himself while... - Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden (1584...
