Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Quote by George Santayana
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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George Santayana Quotes
- America is a young country with an old mentality.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
- It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
- Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Best Quotes
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Let wind blow and the rain fall to wash and take away all problems, it's time for a change.
- I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
- U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
- I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
- When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.