Affinity Quote by George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

— George Santayana

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length…

— Samuel Smiles

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which…

— Bertrand Russell

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

— James Monroe

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

— Benjamin Franklin

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

— Walter Annenberg

Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of…

— Aristotle

“True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.”

— Charles W. Colson