George Santayana Quotes About Optimism

Quotes about: Optimism

• You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Optimism, Body

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.471, 谷月社

• 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 existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

• Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

  George Santayana

  Optimism, Feelings, Religion

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

• American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.

  George Santayana

  Powerful, America, Optimism

  George Santayana (1921). “Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America”

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