„Quelli che non sanno ricordare il passato sono condannati a ripeterlo.“
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George Santayana
Data di nascita: 16. Dicembre 1863
Data di morte: 26. Settembre 1952
George Santayana, nato Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás , è stato un filosofo, scrittore, poeta e saggista spagnolo, rappresentante del cosiddetto realismo critico. Wikipedia
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Origine: Citato in Focus n. 73, pag. 166.
„La musica è essenzialmente inutile, come la vita.“
— George Santayana, libro The Life of Reason
da The Life of Reason, 1905
The Life of Reason
„Solo i morti hanno visto la fine della guerra.“
da Soliliquies in England, 1924
Origine: Questa citazione è stata erroneamente attribuita a Platone nell'incipit del film Black Hawk Down. Cfr. Luigi Mascheroni, Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre. Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html, Il Giornale, 21 marzo 2009, p. 22.
da Introduzione all'Etica di Spinoza; citato in Elena Spagnol, Citazioni, Garzanti, 2003
„La teoria ci aiuta a sorreggere la nostra ignoranza sui fatti.“
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 117, pag. 183.
„Il fanatismo consiste nel raddoppiare gli sforzi quando si è dimenticato l'obiettivo.“
— George Santayana, libro The Life of Reason
da The Life of Reason, 1905; citato in David Allen, Detto, Fatto!, Sperling & Kupfer, 2006, pag. 66. ISBN 9788820041090
The Life of Reason
da Interpretazioni di poesia e religione; citato in MicroMega. Per una riscossa laica, 2007, p. 98
„Un artista è un sognatore che acconsente di sognare il mondo reale.“
Origine: Da The Life of Reason; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni.
„Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.“
This famous statement has produced many paraphrases and variants:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes.
Those who do not read history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.
Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
There is a similar quote by Edmund Burke (in Revolution in France) that often leads to misattribution: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
Origine: The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
Contesto: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Origine: The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), pp. 48-49
Contesto: Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.
„Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.“
Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions about Plato : Did Plato write "Only the dead have seen the end of war"?" http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm
Origine: Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "Tipperary"
„Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.“
— George Santayana, libro The Sense of Beauty
Pt. IV, Expression; § 67: "Conclusion.", p. 267
The Sense of Beauty (1896)
![Artist: Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880-1948). Time magazine., images.google.com [ dead link ] The copyrights of Time magazine are held by Time, Inc. Copyright was not renewed on this early issue, which has therefore fallen into the public domain per US law. Time failed to renew the copyrights of many early issues. See wikisource:Time (magazine) The following issues of Time magazine are in the public domain. Before vol 23, no 5: before 22 Jan 1934 Vol 25, no 1 – vol 27, no 23: 7 Jan 1935 – 29 Jun 1936 Vol 34, nos 1–10: 3 Jul 1939 – 4 Sep 1939 Vol 45, nos 2–5: 7 Jan 1945 –29 Jan 1945](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Santayana.jpg){kind=link}