The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Quote by George Santayana

Topics: Literature Quotes, Religion Quotes

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private...

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out...

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a...

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous...

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous...

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

Great is this organism of mud and fire, terrible this vast, painful, glorious experiment

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to...

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we...

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to...

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to...