What did George Santayana mean by: History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. - George Santayana Copy
+ Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Faith, Sky, 0 - George Santayana
+ Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Hero, Lying, 0 - George Santayana
+ An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Artist, Museums, 0 - George Santayana
+ The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Dream, Dreamer, 0 - George Santayana
+ Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Insanity, Madness, Wonderful, 0 - George Santayana
+ Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Form, Intolerance, Share, 0 - George Santayana
+ Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Effort, Goal, 0 - George Santayana
+ The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Santayana, Theater, 0 - George Santayana
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian. - Hilary Mantel Author · England
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies… - James Anthony Froude
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. - Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. - David Burnett Photographer · USA
History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. - Julian Barnes Author · England
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. - Nikita Khrushchev Politician · Ukraine