It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Quote by George Santayana

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

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

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

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages...

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages...

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.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite...

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite...

America is a young country with an old mentality.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts...

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always...

There is no dunce like a mature dunce

There is no dunce like a mature dunce

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string

Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest...

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest...