Explore more quotes by George Santayana

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

Friendship, Men, People, Evil, Friends

"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."

Peace, Religion, Soul, Destiny

"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

Emotion, End, Nothing

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

Experience,

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

Effort, Fanaticism

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

Death, Duty, Man, Sleep

"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

Advertising, Argument

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

School,

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

Change, Experience, Fraud, Symbol

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

Nation, Country, Eyes, Feet, Man

Exlpore more Happiness quotes

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, Work, Thought, Heart

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Happiness, Eyes, Temper

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Happiness, Being, Body, Mind

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Happiness,

"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Quality, Difference

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Happiness, Man, Philosophy

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Happiness, Love, People, Smile

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, People, Fun, Succeed

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Beauty, God, Opportunity

"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Happiness, Living, Sense, Wonder