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
Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
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.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine then out of a prig
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are damned to repeat it
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors
England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America
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
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses