The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
More Quotes from George Santayana:
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.George Santayana
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
George Santayana
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean
George Santayana
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Family Quotes, Labor Quotes, Nurses QuotesBased on Keywords: obviated, pedagogues, sexless, vexations
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
Ziggy Marley
What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.
Charlie Sheen
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras