George Santayana

“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.”

“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.”