What did George Santayana mean by: The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana Copy
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Anxiety, Desperation, Survival, 0 George Santayana
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Artifice, Life, Truth, 0 George Santayana
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Perspective, Revision, Truth, 0 George Santayana
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Humor, Perspective, Wisdom, 0 George Santayana
It is not society’s fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Men, Society, Vocation, 0 George Santayana
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Emotions, Wisdom, Youth, 0 George Santayana
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Beauty, Meaning, 0 George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Awakening, Illusion, Truth., 0 George Santayana
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
