Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana Click to tweet
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The earth has music for those who listen.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. Click to tweet
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. Click to tweet
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. Click to tweet
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
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Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Edmund Burke
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. Lemony Snicket
He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it. Pittacus Lore
We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. Kurt Vonnegut
It’s been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don’t learn, or can’t remember it, are doomed to repeat it. Steve Berry
Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become. Cynthia A. Patterson
Learn from history or you’re doomed to repeat it. Jesse Ventura
Related Quotes About History
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor
Few characters in history are indispensable. Albert Bushnell Hart
Our history is not our destiny. Alan Cohen Click to tweet
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. Alfred de Vigny
Freedom has no history. Andrew Cohen
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. Anselm Kiefer
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. Arthur Henderson
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. Avery Brooks
History has repeated itself many times throughout the ages. Billy Sheehan
Whenever you move, I think you lose your history. Calista Flockhart
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. Daisaku Ikeda
History is information. Memory is part of your identity. David Miliband
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history! Desmond Tutu
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R. Murrow
History provides a sense of where we’ve been and lessons that can be taken forward. Jim Leach
History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X Click to tweet
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. Otto von Bismarck
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Paul Eldridge
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson
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Similar Authors And Quotes
William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
To me faith means not worrying.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth laughs in flowers.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Your silence gives consent.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
T. S. Eliot
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. Click to tweet
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
George Santayana Biography
Who was George Santayana?
His real name was Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz De Santayana.
He was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
For more, visit the Wikipedia page.
When was George Santayana born?
In Madrid, Spain
When did George Santayana die?
He died on September 26, 1952
How old was George Santayana at death?
88
Where was George Santayana buried?
Campo Verano, Rome, Italy
George Santayana books
- The life of reason in 1905
- The sense of beauty in 1896
- Scepticism and Animal Faith in 1923
- The Last Puritan in 1935
For more books by George Santayana, visit the Amazon page.
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