George Santayana Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

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

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

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

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

  George Santayana

  Real, History, Theatre

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.84, Indiana University Press

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

  George Santayana

  Writing History, Needs, Historian

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

• Sanity is madness put to good use.

  George Santayana

  History, Use, Madness

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.269, Indiana University Press

• History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

  George Santayana

  Kings, History, Interesting

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

• 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 superhuman.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Order

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

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

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

• Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

  George Santayana

  Art, History, Melancholy

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

  George Santayana

  Blood, History, Arrogant

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

• History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

  George Santayana

  Memories, History

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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