Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Quote by George Santayana

Topics: Sanity Quotes

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...

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

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

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.

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...

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is...

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is...

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery...

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery...

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Music is essentially useless, as is life

Music is essentially useless, as is life

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...

America is a young country with an old mentality.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is...

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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 best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems...

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems...

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most...

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most...

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman -...

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman -...