"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
― George Santayana
Topic(s):
Hope
― George Santayana
More From George Santayana
- "The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
- "Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."
- "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
More In Hope
- "I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it."― Beverly Cleary
- "I remember thinking, That’s what I need – and that hope was in Jesus Christ."― Willie Aames
- "Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness."― B. H. Liddell Hart