The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. – George Santayana
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. – Azar Nafisi