Quotes by George Santayana

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

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

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.