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Past Quotes by George Santayana
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we…
- Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly…
- There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves…
- It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all…
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
- A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
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