“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
Second Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Habit of Perfection", lines 5 - 8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.”
Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Book X, Chapter VII, 15
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr book The Study Quran
On the Study Qur'an (2015). "Introduction". The Study Quran. HarperOne.
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
"Search for Love" in The Works of D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth Editions, (1994), p. 552
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage