The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who h…

George Santayana
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ✨ Little Essays (1920) Ideal Immortality
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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. ✨ George Santayana (2009). The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, p.805, The Floating Press
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Understanding, p.461, 谷月社
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ✨ George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2008). The Letters of George Santa … ▶
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ✨ George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, p.129, Indiana Un … ▶
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ✨ George Santaya … ▶

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ✨ Little Essays (1920) Ideal Immortality

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