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George Santayana

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it


— George Santayana


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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.


— George Santayana


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The worship of power is an old religion.


— George Santayana


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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.


— George Santayana


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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.


— George Santayana


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Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.


— George Santayana


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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


— George Santayana


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America is a young country with an old mentality.


— George Santayana


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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.


— George Santayana


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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.


— George Santayana


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About George Santayana

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Did you know about George Santayana?

Man of letters

Santayana's one novel The Last Puritan is a bildungsroman—that is a novel that centers on the personal growth of the protagonist. He had saved money and been aided by a legacy from his mother. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult his other writings are far more accessible and pithy.

At the age of forty-eight Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently never to return to the United States. ". He said that he stood in philosophy "exactly where [he stood] in daily life.

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