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

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

George Santayana
Past, Infancy Is, History
"The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

George Santayana
Kings, History, Interesting
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana
History, Use, Madness
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.269, Indiana University Press

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana
Art, History, Melancholy
Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

George Santayana
Real, History, Theatre
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.84, Indiana University Press

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

George Santayana
Memories, History
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

George Santayana
Blood, History, Arrogant
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

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