The famous George Santayana quote: “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” That's the thing, though. None of us have forgotten. Darned if we're not repeating it anyway...

— George Santayana Misattributed

More quotes by George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905)

The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)

The Sense of Beauty (1896)

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