Logo
Quote by George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes mor

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

Category:
Knowledge
Author
George Santayana
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. – Margaret Atwood

Category:
Religion

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. – Lucretius

Category:
Religion

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. – Neale Donald Walsch

Category:
Religion

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. – Eugene Ionesco

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. – Wangari Maathai

Category:
environmental

What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. – Proverb

Category:
Professionalism

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

Category:
History

When trouble comes, focus on Gods ability to care for you. – Charles Stanley

Category:
God