“Let us be content to live in the mind.”

— George Santayana, The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 64

About George Santayana

1863 – 1952

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

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

“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.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”

“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”