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George Santayana Quotes

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

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George Santayana Quotes

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana
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An Artist may visit museum but only a pedant can live there.
– Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
~Santayana
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Art is a delayed echo.
– Santayana
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(Self)assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
~George Santayana
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By nature’s kindly disposition, most questions which it is beyond man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ Santayana
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“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
~George Santayana

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
– Santayana
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
~George Santayana

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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
~George Santayana
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Man is full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
– Santayana
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Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
– Santayana
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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
– George Santayana

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The earth has music for those who listen.
– George Santayana

 

History – Thought for the Day

GLOBAL HISTORY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Temple Church, Photo by PH Morton

History – Thought for the Day

“Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana, a Spanish born American Philosopher. 1863-1952

This truism can certainly be applied to periods in military history viz;

The Nazi German  invasion of Russia during the 1941 winter  in WW2. Napoleon had tried in 1812 faulty logistics, poor discipline under the renowned strong Russian resistance, disease, and not the least, the weather defeated them both. had the Nazis concentrated on the Western Front instead WW2 may have had a different outcome!?

The recurring military defeats can also  be ascribed to the British, Russian and Americans trying over the last two centuries  to subdue war lords in Afghanistan, failing with similar reasons to the above.

The French campaign failed in Vietnam followed by the US both halting because of  strong dogged resistance, climate etc and other factors common to both incursions.

In essence ,the invading armies underestimated their foes, not learning from the previous campaigns.