Tao Te Ching

“No possible reform will make existence adorable or fundamentally just... So much tension is hysterical and degrading; nothing is ever gained by it worth half what it spoils”

— Santayana, George 1863 – 1952 CE
(Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás)
Powerfully influential, true-to-himself philosopher/poet
from War Shrines