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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

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.

George Santayana
Justice, Heaven, World
"Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" by George Santayana, (p. 54), 1900.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

George Santayana
Fate, Justice, World
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.67, 谷月社

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.

George Santayana
Justice, Bars, Spirit
George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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