Santayana

[ san-tee-an-uh; -ah-nuh; Spanish sahn-tah-yah-nah ]

noun

1. George, 1863–1952, Spanish philosopher and writer in the U.S.; in Europe after 1912.

Santayana

/ ˌsæntɪˈænə /

noun

1. SantayanaGeorge18631952MUSSpanishPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: poetWRITING: critic George. 1863–1952, US philosopher, poet, and critic, born in Spain. His works include The Life of Reason (1905–06) and The Realms of Being (1927–40)

Example Sentences

In 1920, the philosopher George Santayana wrote that Americans “have all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistible in a space otherwise quite empty. To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education and a career.”

From Salon

Ultimately, though, Santayana was right: If America is to survive as liberal democratic republic, it will have to stop making ethno-racial distinctions a key organizing principle of its legal and educational public life.

From Salon

In the words of the philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

From Seattle Times

On the left as well as the right, there are those who, with hostility oozing from every pore, fit George Santayana’s description of a barbarian: someone who thinks his passions are their own excuse for existing.

From Washington Post

Philosopher George Santayana’s famous maxim is true: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

From Washington Post