It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. — George Santayana
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine by which alone the mortal heart is led unto the thinking of the thought divine. — George Santayana
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
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends — George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously — George Santayana
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. — George Santayana
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. — George Santayana
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. — George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. — George Santayana
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana