What did George Santayana mean by: History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana Copy
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man’s good is found in another’s evil. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Competition, Conflict, Morality, 0 George Santayana
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Altruism, Compassion, Empathy, 0 George Santayana
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Contradictions, Support, Vanity, 0 George Santayana
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Heroism, Honesty, Integrity, 0 George Santayana
He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Belief, Perception, Reality, 0 George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Consequences, History, Memory, 0 George Santayana
A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Existence, Transformation, Transience, 0 George Santayana
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Santayana, Globalism, Nationalism, Perspective, 0 George Santayana
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
