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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana
Love, Positive, Happiness
George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

George Santayana
Love, Death, Philosopher
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.146, Courier Corporation

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana
Love, Half, Firsts
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.321, Indiana University Press

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana
Love, Beauty, Wisdom
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana
Love, Memories, Passion

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

George Santayana
Love, War, Calling
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.56, 谷月社

A friend's only gift is himself.

George Santayana
Love, Self Love
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.88, 谷月社

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

George Santayana
Love, Heart, Surrender
"The Philosophy of Santayana: Selections from All the Works of George Santayana".

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

George Santayana
Love, Men, Giving
George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.99, Рипол Классик

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

George Santayana
Love, Sex, Powerful
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.39, Courier Corporation

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

George Santayana
Love, Light, Illustration
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.27, MIT Press

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