Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's… — 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
