George Santayana Quotes About History
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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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.
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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.
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Sanity is madness put to good use.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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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.
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Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
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History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.
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