Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Quote by George Santayana
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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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George Santayana Quotes
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
- To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Best Quotes
- Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
- It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
- Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
- Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
- I want my music to do the explaining.
- Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
- Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.