Truth Quotes by George Santayana

17 Truth quotes by George Santayana

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Santayana treats truth as a living concept, fusing classic philosophy with a poet’s eye. In seventeen concise thoughts he invites you to contemplate the interplay of belief, reality, and the human experience.

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.

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Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good…

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

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Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

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“A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity”

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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

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Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it…

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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every…

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because…

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The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which…

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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…

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To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals…

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Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly…

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The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our…

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The…

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Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a…

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Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

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“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

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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…

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

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Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being…

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had…

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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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…

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