Santayana

[san-tee-an-uh, -ah-nuh, sahn-tah-yah-nah]

noun

1. George, 1863–1952, Spanish philosopher and writer in the U.S.; in Europe after 1912.

Santayana

/ ˌsæntɪˈænə /

noun

1. George. 1863–1952, US philosopher, poet, and critic, born in Spain. His works include The Life of Reason (1905–06) and The Realms of Being (1927–40)

Example Sentences

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously wrote in “The Life of Reason.”

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Where it rhymes, inevitability is close at hand, reminding us that, as Santayana observed, we are condemned to repeat the past we fail to remember.

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In 1920, the philosopher George Santayana wrote that Americans “have all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistible in a space otherwise quite empty. To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education and a career.”

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Ultimately, though, Santayana was right: If America is to survive as liberal democratic republic, it will have to stop making ethno-racial distinctions a key organizing principle of its legal and educational public life.

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In the words of the philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

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