George Santayana Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Happiness, Laughter, Mad

Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

Happiness, Success, Education

George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Love, Positive, Happiness

George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

George Santayana

Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社

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.

George Santayana

Happiness, Happy, Determination

George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

George Santayana

Happiness, Nature, Grateful

George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

George Santayana

Happiness, Success, Succeed

"The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".