Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Santayana on the Importance of Happiness

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

- George Santayana

2 comments:

Guitar's Cry said...

A quote I would agree with! But would happiness be equated with peace? One can be happy and not at peace. But then, I cannot imagine being at peace and not being happy...

So, yeah, great quote!

Paul Sunstone said...

Good question, GC! Now I wonder what Santayana meant by "happiness"? Would he have thought that one can be happy but not at peace? I don't know, but I would be curious to find out.