Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George SantayanaThat life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George SantayanaKnowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George SantayanaTo be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
George SantayanaTags: inspirational happiness
With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another, if I would, I could not find,
And I am grown much older in a day.
But yet I treasure in my memory
Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be,--
What I keep of you, or you rob from me.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George SantayanaTags: advertising
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George SantayanaTags: patriotic
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.
George SantayanaTags: life solitude work hardship
Memory... is an internal rumor.
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