Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set … - George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.