History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see? — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Copy Share
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,… — George Santayana Copy Share
