George Santayana quote about past from The Life of Reason - Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
 George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). copy citation

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Author George Santayana
Source The Life of Reason
Topic past memory repeating
Date 1905
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15000/15000-h/15000-h.htm

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“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. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.” source

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