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As a philosopher, Santayana is known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", [4] and "Only the dead have seen the end of war", [5] and his definition of beauty as "Pleasure objectified". [6]
The Life of Reason is sometimes considered to be one of the most poetic and well-written works of philosophy in Western history. [1] To supply but a single example, the oft-quoted aphorism of Santayana's, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," may be found on p. 284 of Reason in Common Sense.
The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana observed that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [ 28 ] Karl Marx , having in mind the respective coups d'état of Napoleon I (1799) and his nephew Napoleon III (1851), wrote acerbically in 1852: " Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great ...
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And I am increasingly alarmed that we may be condemned to repeat history, to once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish.
Finally, before you dash off an angry e-mail to tell me that the "doomed to repeat history" quote is actually from George Santayana, don't bother. I've got all of his albums. "Smooth" is like my ...
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it – George Santayana; Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones; Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know (Czech proverb) [5] Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas; Time and tide wait for no man; Time flies
In his book Natural Right and History, Strauss makes a series of points in which he somewhat harshly evaluates Burke's writings. [ 178 ] One of the topics that he first addresses is the fact that Burke creates a definitive separation between happiness and virtue and explains that "Burke, therefore, seeks the foundation of government 'in a ...
"What is past is prologue", inscribed on Present (1935, Robert Aitken) located on the northeast corner of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC "What's past is prologue" is a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present.