George Santayana | happiness
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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George Santayana
George Santayana | happiness
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.
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George Santayana | future
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
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George Santayana | friendship
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
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George Santayana | fear
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
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George Santayana | faith
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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George Santayana | experience
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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