Folks,
On Feb 17, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
There is an old adage that `those who do not study history are bound
to repeat it.'
The adage originates with George Santayana, the Spanish-American poet
and philosopher:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- The Life of Reason, vol. 1, chapter 12, p. 284 (1905)
Shaw wrote along the same lines:
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens,
how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"
Santayana also said:
"History is a pack of lies about events that never
happened told by people who weren't there."
He was a snide old coot, wasn't he?
Dave
PS: As a side note on this topic, Nick's dad, Willard Arnett, is
Santayana's biographer. A grad student friend of mine at Stanford,
working on a project involving Santayana, and finding out that
Willard Arnett's kid was my best friend, practically begged me to
introduce me to him. I told him that I'd met him and it was no big
deal: he's just an old guy who looks like Colonel Sanders.
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