"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Society Tags: society More From George Santayana "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." "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." "Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth." More In Society "The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well."― Ernest Istook "There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."― David Antin "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."― John Updike