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George Santayana

Quote of George Santayana - Those who cannot remember the past...


Biography - George Santayana:

Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
Born: 1863 - Died: 1952
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Ceux qui ne peuvent pas se rappeler le passé sont condamnés à le répéter.

German
Wenn man sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist man verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.




See also 

See also...



If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.




Quotes for: past


Quotes

Quotes about the past:


The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.





The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.





When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
















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