Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
