George Santayana
Also known as Jorge Santayana, Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana, Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
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George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher who explored questions about knowledge, beauty, and how people understand the world. His ideas have been influential in Western philosophy, and he's particularly known for the saying "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 16 Dec 1863
- Died
- 26 Sep 1952
- Works
- 272
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- [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities
- Reason in art
- La tradizione signorile nella filosofia americana e altri saggi
- L'erreur de la philosophie allemande ...
- El último puritano
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George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. Of his nearly 89 years, he spent 39 in the U.S. Santayana is perhaps best known as an aphorist, most famously for his oft-misquoted remark "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned t
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3 objects attributed to George Santayana, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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