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…

Quote by George Santayana

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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any...

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude...

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Music is essentially useless, as is life

Music is essentially useless, as is life

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

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

America is a young country with an old mentality.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one...

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one...

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and...

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.