When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They we… - George Santayana

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Ceux qui ne peuvent se souvenir du passé sont condamnés à le répéter.