To Mrs. William Warren
6 Park Street
Torquay, England. March 24, 1917
I am myself a sceptic, and if one’s object were to discover and embrace the truth, no religion seems to me much to the purpose, all of them being products of the human imagination.
In a moral and allegorical sense, one religion may still be said to be “truer” than another, if it brings us into greater harmony with the conditions of our life, and developes better our spiritual capacities.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Two, 1910-1920. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
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