The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight, 1948-1952: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V, Book Eight (George Santayana: Definitive Works) (Bk. 8)
SquareState.net - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
There is a famous saying "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it". These are the words of George Santayana, and they are usually misquoted. Mr. Santayana was right as far as he went in this, if you do not remember what happened before, then you cannot profit from the mistakes of the past. It is a good warning when thinking about the protections...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... are doomed to repeat it" (George Santayana). The BBC ran a piece last week recalling the end of the Soviet venture in Afghanistan, and comparing it to the current one... By the late 1980s, Moscow's exit strategy was basically the same as Nato's today - to build up an allied government in Kabul with sufficient trained army and police forces to defend itself, thereby allowing foreign...
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This Is Hilarious, You Should Watch It of the Day: To paraphrase George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to assert that The Beatles’ 1965 Super Bowl win over the Giants did quite a bit to raise the nation’s spirits after the assassination of President Nixevelt. [ via .]
Stick Poet Super Hero (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... as diverse as Nietzsche and such pillars of American pragmatism as Ralph Waldo Emerson and George Santayana. With verse so invested in the problems of epistemology and metaphysics, Stevens' poetry has been freshly examined in the light of current philosophical trends with each new decade. However, the unique way he explores the interaction between imagination and reality resists dissection...
watersblogged! (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santayana There's good news and there's bad news on the ELCA front. The good news is that a group of ELCAns- those who comprise the gr.oup known as Lutheran CORE - has decided to go ahead and do the obvious: leave the apostate ELCA and form a new church body. Obvious though this step may be in one sense, it continues...
