George Santayana
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
(topic: age)
- The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
(topic: body)
- It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
(topic: excellence)
- A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
(topic: happiness)
- When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
(topic: men and women)
- 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.
(topic: religion)
- Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
(topic: soul)
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