It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. — George Santayana Evil Copy Share Image
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. — George Santayana Emotional Copy Share Image
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
“O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Dreams 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 Army Copy Share Image
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.” — George Santayana Psychology 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… — George Santayana Brain Copy Share Image
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good… — George Santayana Advantage Copy Share Image
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not… — George Santayana Eternal friendship Copy Share Image
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last… — George Santayana Actor Copy Share Image
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be… — George Santayana Mass Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Aliens Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Contempt Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana History Copy Share Image
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana Alien Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana America Copy Share Image
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. — George Santayana Brain Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. — George Santayana Language Copy Share Image
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
