Santayana

American  

[san-tee-an-uh, -ah-nuh, sahn-tah-yah-nah] / ˌsæn tiˈæn ə, -ˈɑ nə, ˌsɑn tɑˈyɑ nɑ /

noun

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

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Santayana British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

It was George Santayana who famously said that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

From MarketWatch

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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.”

From Salon

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

From Seattle Times