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

Quote by George Santayana

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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only...

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only...

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a...

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a...

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but...

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but...

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons...

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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

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

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first...

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection...

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.