George Santayana Quotes about Character

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

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

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

Integrity, Character, Army

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

George Santayana

Philosophy, Character, Men

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

George Santayana

Character, Greatness, Men

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

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

George Santayana

Character, Past, Historical Novels

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.62, Indiana University Press

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

George Santayana

Character, Past, Order

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

George Santayana

Travel, Character, May

George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”