George Santayana Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Work, Character

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press

• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Education

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社

• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

• It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Joy, Littles

  George Santayana (2014). “Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion”, p.19, The Floating Press

• I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Believe, Passion

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Succeed

  "The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".

• A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Nature, Grateful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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