History Quotes by George Santayana

18 History quotes by George Santayana

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Santayana’s reflections on history weave philosophy with observation, and these eighteen excerpts illustrate that blend. You’ll find a measured tone that ponders how ideas and events intertwine, offering a thoughtful lens on the ages.

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History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

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The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

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The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

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Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are…

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Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine…

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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The…

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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

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“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is…

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My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer…

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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had…

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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had…

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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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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…

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