George Santayana Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

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

  George Santayana

  Truth, Freedom, Liberty

  Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"

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

  George Santayana

  Truth, Circumstances, Mortals

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

• The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Mean, Quality

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.72, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Memories, Father

  George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.268, Courier Corporation

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