Famous Quotes / George Santayana
137 Quotations by George Santayana
- 21. Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
- 22. Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
- 23. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- 24. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- 25. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without bene ...
- 26. For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
- 27. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships ...
- 28. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are fri ...
- 29. Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
- 30. Habit is stronger than reason.
- 31. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentabl ...
- 32. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
- 33. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- 34. I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser pass ...
- 35. I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should de ...
- 36. If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
- 37. In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
- 38. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflecti ...
- 39. Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
- 40. Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.