George Santayana Quotes About Accidents
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Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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