The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Quote by George Santayana

Topics: Gratitude Quotes

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or...

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or...

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it...

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it...

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The...

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The...

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being...

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being...

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them...

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what...

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what...

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...

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

Sanity is a madness put to good uses

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.