Happiness Quotes by George Santayana

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

— George Santayana

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

— George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

— George Santayana

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

— George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

— George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

— George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

— George Santayana

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

— George Santayana

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you…

— George Santayana

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

— George Santayana

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

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as…

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a…

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them…

— George Santayana

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…

— George Santayana

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there…

— George Santayana

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.…

— George Santayana

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there…

— George Santayana