Mortality has its compensations: one is that all e — George Santayana

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ♥ 1 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. There is nothing impossible, therefore, in the existence of the supernatural; its existence seems to me decidedly probable; there is infinite room for it on every side. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. O’Flaherty V.C. (1919) George Bernard Shaw Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. Mark Twain