The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Copy Share
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,… — George Santayana Copy Share
