Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked.
More Quotes from George Santayana:
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.George Santayana
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
George Santayana
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Work and love -- these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana
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