George Santayana Quotes on Life
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There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
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It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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The living have never shown me how to live.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
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Life is neither a feast nor a spectacle, but a predicament.