To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana Nature
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. -George Santayana Patience
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. -George Santayana Future
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. -George Santayana Positive
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. -George Santayana Science
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. -George Santayana Women
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. -George Santayana Friendship
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. -George Santayana Men
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. -George Santayana Home
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. -George Santayana Religion
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. -George Santayana Women
