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Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

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

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana
Love, Memories, Passion

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana
Children, Memories, Parent
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

Memory... is an internal rumor.

George Santayana
Memories, Rumor, Internals

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

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

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

George Santayana
Memories, Self, Bird
George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana
Change, Wisdom, Memories
The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.

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

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

George Santayana
Memories, Poverty, Pleasure
George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.44, Courier Corporation

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

George Santayana
Change, Art, Memories
George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana
Children, Memories, Husband
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

George Santayana
Country, Memories, Heart
George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.484, Indiana University Press

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

George Santayana
Truth, Memories, Father
George Santayana (2013). “Scepticism and Animal Faith”, p.268, Courier Corporation

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