It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana on marriage
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. George Santayana on men
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. George Santayana on money
Music is essentially useless, as is life. George Santayana on music
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. George Santayana on music
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana on nature
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana on nature
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. George Santayana on nature
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana on patience
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana on patriotism
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana on peace
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. George Santayana on positive
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. George Santayana on power
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana on religion
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana on religion
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana on religion
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. George Santayana on respect
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. George Santayana on science
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana on society
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. George Santayana on truth