George Santayana
George Santayana
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a valid Spanish passport. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 December 1863
CityMadrid, Spain
CountrySpain
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy
Wealth, religion and military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are damned to repeat it
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool
As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired