Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


George Santayana

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Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
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Those who cannot admit making stupid mistakes are destined to repeat them over and over.
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Even God cannot change the past.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
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I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they...
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blo...
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing with...
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imagin...
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
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The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
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Consciousness is a born hermit.
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My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
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Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
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Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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