“ The ideal state and the ideal universe should be a family where all are not equal, but where all are happy. ”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). copy citation
| Author | George Santayana |
|---|---|
| Source | The Life of Reason |
| Topic | family universe |
| Date | 1905 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15000/15000-h/15000-h.htm |
Context
“In the second place, it is impossible on moral grounds that injustice should subsist in the ideal. The ideal means the perfect, and a supposed ideal in which wrong still subsisted would be the denial of perfection. The ideal state and the ideal universe should be a family where all are not equal, but where all are happy. So that an aristocratic or theistic system in order to deserve respect must discard its sinister apologies for evil and clearly propose such an order of existences, one superposed upon the other, as should involve no suffering on any of its levels.”
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