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

George Santayana in The Life of Reason (1905)
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana in Life of Reason (1905)
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

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

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

George Santayana in Soliloquies in England "War Shrines" (1922)
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

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A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

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