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."--Reason in Common Sense (1905) by George Santayana |
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is a dictum by George Santayana, first recorded in Reason in Common Sense (1905).
The full fragment reads:
"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."
See also Hegel's “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
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