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

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”

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

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

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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