“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

— George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Society (1905)

About George Santayana

1863 – 1952

Spanish-American philosopher and poet, author of "The Life of Reason".

“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.”

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

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

“My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.”