11 George Santayana Quotes on Life

George Santayana quotes on life

5. There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.

12. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

13. That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

19. It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

27. Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

33. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

37. The living have never shown me how to live.

40. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

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

55. Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

66. Life is neither a feast nor a spectacle, but a predicament.