George Santayana - wikipedia George Santayana George Santayana A drawing of George Santayana from the early 20th century Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás ( 1863 - 12 - 16 ) December 16, 1863 Madrid, Spain September 26, 1952 ( 1952 - 09 - 26 ) ( aged 88 ) Rome, Italy Nationality Spanish Alma mater Harvard University King 's College, Cambridge Era 20th - century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Pragmatism naturalism Notable ideas Lucretian materialism Skepticism Natural aristocracy The Realms of Being Influences Democritus Lucretius Baruch Spinoza William James Influenced Wallace Stevens John Lachs Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana ( / ˌsæntiˈænə / or / - ˈɑːnə / ; December 16, 1863 -- September 26, 1952 ), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a valid Spanish passport. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty - eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last wish was to be buried in the Spanish pantheon in Rome. Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as `` Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it '', `` Only the dead have seen the end of war '', and the definition of beauty as `` pleasure objectified ''. Although an atheist, he always treasured the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview in which he was raised. Santayana was a broad - ranging cultural critic spanning many disciplines. Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Later life 4 Philosophical work and publications 5 Man of letters 6 Awards 7 Legacy 8 In popular culture 9 Bibliography 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External links Early Life Born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás on December 16, 1863, in Madrid, he spent his early childhood in Ávila, Spain. His mother, Josefina Borrás, was the daughter of a Spanish official in the Philippines, and Jorge was the only child of her second marriage. She was the widow of George Sturgis, a Boston merchant with whom she had five children, two of whom died in infancy. She lived in Boston for a few years following her husband 's death in 1857, but in 1861 moved with her three surviving children to live in Madrid. There she encountered Agustín Ruiz de Santayana, an old friend from her years in the Philippines. They married in 1862. A colonial civil servant, Ruiz de Santayana was also a painter and minor intellectual. The family lived in Madrid and Ávila until 1869, when Josefina Borrás de Santayana returned to Boston with her three Sturgis children, as she had promised her first husband to raise the children in the United States. She left the six - year - old Jorge with his father in Spain. Jorge and his father followed her in 1872, but his father, finding neither Boston nor his wife 's attitude to his liking, soon returned alone to Ávila. He remained there the rest of his life. Jorge did not see him again until he entered Harvard College and took his summer vacations in Spain. Sometime during this period, Jorge 's first name was anglicized as George, the English equivalent. Education Santayana lived in Hollis Hall as a student at Harvard. Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce and was involved in eleven clubs as an alternative to athletics. He was founder and president of the Philosophical Club, a member of the literary society known as the O.K., an editor and cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon, and co-founder of the literary journal The Harvard Monthly. In December, 1885, he played the role of Lady Elfrida in the Hasty Pudding theatrical Robin Hood, followed by the production Papillonetta in the spring of his senior year. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 1886, Santayana studied for two years in Berlin. He then returned to Harvard to write his dissertation on Hermann Lotze and teach philosophy, becoming part of the Golden Age of the Harvard philosophy department. Some of his Harvard students became famous in their own right, including T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Wallace Stevens was not among his students but became a friend. From 1896 to 1897, Santayana studied at King 's College, Cambridge. Later Life In 1912, Santayana resigned his position at Harvard to spend the rest of his life in Europe. He had saved money and been aided by a legacy from his mother. After some years in Ávila, Paris and Oxford, after 1920, he began to winter in Rome, eventually living there year - round until his death. During his forty years in Europe, he wrote nineteen books and declined several prestigious academic positions. Many of his visitors and correspondents were Americans, including his assistant and eventual literary executor, Daniel Cory. In later life, Santayana was financially comfortable, in part because his 1935 novel, The Last Puritan, had become an unexpected best - seller. In turn, he financially assisted a number of writers, including Bertrand Russell, with whom he was in fundamental disagreement, philosophically and politically. Santayana never married. His romantic life, if any, is not well understood. Some evidence, including a comment Santayana made late in life comparing himself to A.E. Housman, and his friendships with people who were openly homosexual and bisexual, has led scholars to speculate that Santayana was perhaps homosexual or bisexual himself, but it remains unclear whether he had any actual heterosexual or homosexual relationships. Philosophical work and publications Although schooled in German idealism, Santayana was critical of it and made an effort to distance himself from its epistemology. Santayana 's main philosophical work consists of The Sense of Beauty ( 1896 ), his first book - length monograph and perhaps the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States ; The Life of Reason five volumes, 1905 -- 6, the high point of his Harvard career ; Scepticism and Animal Faith ( 1923 ) ; and The Realms of Being ( 4 vols., 1927 -- 40 ). Although Santayana was not a pragmatist in the mold of William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, or John Dewey, The Life of Reason arguably is the first extended treatment of pragmatism written. Like many of the classical pragmatists, and because he was well - versed in evolutionary theory, Santayana was committed to metaphysical naturalism. He believed that human cognition, cultural practices, and social institutions have evolved so as to harmonize with the conditions present in their environment. Their value may then be adjudged by the extent to which they facilitate human happiness. The alternate title to The Life of Reason, `` the Phases of Human Progress, '' is indicative of this metaphysical stance. Santayana was an early adherent of epiphenomenalism, but also admired the classical materialism of Democritus and Lucretius ( of the three authors on whom he wrote in Three Philosophical Poets, Santayana speaks most favorably of Lucretius ). He held Spinoza 's writings in high regard, calling him his `` master and model. '' Although an atheist, he held a fairly benign view of religion. Santayana 's views on religion are outlined in his books Reason in Religion, The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, and Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. Santayana described himself as an `` aesthetic Catholic. '' He spent the last decade of his life at the Convent of the Blue Nuns of the Little Company of Mary on the Celian Hill at 6 Via Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome, where he was cared for by the Irish sisters. Man of Letters Santayana early in his career Santayana 's one novel, The Last Puritan, is a bildungsroman, centering on the personal growth of its protagonist, Oliver Alden. His Persons and Places is an autobiography. These works also contain many of his sharper opinions and bons mots. He wrote books and essays on a wide range of subjects, including philosophy of a less technical sort, literary criticism, the history of ideas, politics, human nature, morals, the influence of religion on culture and social psychology, all with considerable wit and humor. While his writings on technical philosophy can be difficult, his other writings are far more accessible and pithy. He wrote poems and a few plays, and left an ample correspondence, much of it published only since 2000. Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Santayana observed American culture and character from a foreigner 's point of view. Like William James, his friend and mentor, he wrote philosophy in a literary way. Ezra Pound includes Santayana among his many cultural references in The Cantos, notably in `` Canto LXXXI '' and `` Canto XCV ''. Santayana is usually considered an American writer, although he declined to become an American citizen, resided in fascist Italy for decades, and said that he was most comfortable, intellectually and aesthetically, at Oxford University. Awards Royal Society of Literature Benson Medal, 1925. Columbia University Butler Gold Medal, 1945. Honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin, 1911. Legacy Santayana 's famous aphorism `` Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it '' is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Polish translation and English back - translation ( above ), and on a subway placard in Germany ( below ) Santayana is remembered in large part for his aphorisms, many of which have been so frequently used as to have become clichéd. His philosophy has not fared quite as well. He is regarded by most as an excellent prose stylist, and Professor John Lachs ( who is sympathetic with much of Santayana 's philosophy ) writes, in On Santayana, that his eloquence may ironically be the very cause of this neglect. Santayana influenced those around him, including Bertrand Russell, whom Santayana single - handedly steered away from the ethics of G.E. Moore. He also influenced many prominent people such as Harvard students T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann, W.E.B. Du Bois, Conrad Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, as well as Max Eastman and the poet Wallace Stevens. Stevens was especially influenced by Santayana 's aesthetics and became a friend even though Stevens did not take courses taught by Santayana. Santayana is quoted by the Canadian - American sociologist Erving Goffman as a central influence in the thesis of his famous book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life ( 1959 ). Religious historian Jerome A. Stone credits Santayana with contributing to the early thinking in the development of religious naturalism. English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead quotes Santayana extensively in his magnum opus Process and Reality. Chuck Jones used Santayana 's description of fanaticism as `` redoubling your effort after you 've forgotten your aim '' to describe his cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Along with Wendell Phillips and John F. Kennedy, Santayana is quoted on a military plaque at Veterans Memorial Park in Rhome, Texas. In popular culture Santayana is referenced in the lyrics to singer Billy Joel 's 1989 music single, `` We Did n't Start the Fire ''. Bibliography Santayana 's Reason in Common Sense was published in five volumes between 1905 and 1906 ; this edition is from 1920. 1894. Sonnets And Other Verses. 1896. The Sense of Beauty : Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory. 1899. Lucifer : A Theological Tragedy. 1900. Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1901. A Hermit of Carmel And Other Poems. 1905 -- 1906. The Life of Reason : or the Phases of Human Progress, 5 vols. 1910. Three Philosophical Poets : Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe. 1913. Winds of Doctrine : Studies in Contemporary Opinion. 1915. Egotism in German Philosophy. 1920. Character and Opinion in the United States : With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America. 1920. Little Essays, Drawn From the Writings of George Santayana. by Logan Pearsall Smith, With the Collaboration of the Author. 1922. Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. 1922. Poems. 1923. Scepticism and Animal Faith : Introduction to a System of Philosophy. 1926. Dialogues in Limbo 1927. Platonism and the Spiritual Life. 1927 -- 40. The Realms of Being, 4 vols. 1931. The Genteel Tradition at Bay. 1933. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy : Five Essays 1935. The Last Puritan : A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. 1936. Obiter Scripta : Lectures, Essays and Reviews. Justus Buchler and Benjamin Schwartz, eds. 1944. Persons and Places. 1945. The Middle Span. 1946. The Idea of Christ in the Gospels ; or, God in Man : A Critical Essay. 1948. Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New Dialogues. 1951. Dominations and Powers : Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government. 1953. My Host The World Posthumous edited / selected works 1955. The Letters of George Santayana. Daniel Cory, ed. Charles Scribner 's Sons. New York. ( 296 letters ) 1956. Essays in Literary Criticism of George Santayana. Irving Singer, ed. 1957. The Idler and His Works, and Other Essays. Daniel Cory, ed. 1967. The Genteel Tradition : Nine Essays by George Santayana. Douglas L. Wilson, ed. 1967. George Santayana 's America : Essays on Literature and Culture. James Ballowe, ed. 1967. Animal Faith and Spiritual Life : Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana With Critical Essays on His Thought. John Lachs, ed. 1968. Santayana on America : Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy. Richard Colton Lyon, ed. 1968. Selected Critical Writings of George Santayana, 2 vols. Norman Henfrey, ed. 1969. Physical Order and Moral Liberty : Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana. John and Shirley Lachs, eds. 1979. The Complete Poems of George Santayana : A Critical Edition. Edited, with an introduction, by W.G. Holzberger. Bucknell University Press. 1995. The Birth of Reason and Other Essays. Daniel Cory, ed., with an Introduction by Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. The Essential Santayana. Selected Writings Edited by the Santayana Edition, Compiled and with an introduction by Martin A. Coleman. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. The Works of George Santayana Unmodernized, critical editions of George Santayana 's published and unpublished writing. The Works is edited by the Santayana Edition and published by The MIT Press. 1986. Persons and Places. Santayana 's autobiography, incorporating Persons and Places, 1944 ; The Middle Span, 1945 ; and My Host the World, 1953. 1988 ( 1896 ). The Sense of Beauty : Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory. 1990 ( 1900 ). Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1994 ( 1935 ). The Last Puritan : A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. The Letters of George Santayana. Containing over 3,000 of his letters, many discovered posthumously, to more than 350 recipients. 2001. Book One, 1868 -- 1909. 2001. Book Two, 1910 -- 1920. 2002. Book Three, 1921 -- 1927. 2003. Book Four, 1928 -- 1932. 2003. Book Five, 1933 -- 1936. 2004. Book Six, 1937 -- 1940. 2006. Book Seven, 1941 -- 1947. 2008. Book Eight, 1948 -- 1952. 2011. George Santayana 's Marginalia : A Critical Selection, Books 1 and 2. Compiled by John O. McCormick and edited by Kristine W. Frost. The Life of Reason in five books. 2011 ( 1905 ). Reason in Common Sense. 2013 ( 1905 ). Reason in Society. 2014 ( 1905 ). Reason in Religion. See also Philosophy portal Poetry portal Biography portal American philosophy List of American philosophers The Harvard Monthly The Santayana Edition References Jump up ^ `` the definition of Santayana ''. Jump up ^ George Santayana, `` Apologia Pro Mente Sua, '' in P.A. Schilpp, The Philosophy of George Santayana, ( 1940 ), 603. Jump up ^ George Santayana ( 1905 ) Reason in Common Sense, p. 284, volume 1 of The Life of Reason Jump up ^ George Santayana ( 1922 ) Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, number 25 Jump up ^ `` Beauty as Intrinsic Pleasure by GeorgeSantayana ''. Jump up ^ Parri, Alice Two Harvard Friends : Charles Loeser and George Santayana ( 1 ) Jump up ^ Garrison, Lloyd McKim, An Illustrated History of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals, Cambridge, Hasty Pudding Club, 1897. Jump up ^ Who Belongs To Phi Beta Kappa, ' Phi Beta Kappa website ' ', accessed Oct 4, 2009 Jump up ^ `` SANTAYANA, George ''. Who 's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1555. Jump up ^ Lensing, George S. ( 1986 ). Wallace Stevens : A Poet 's Growth. LSU Press. 313 pp. ISBN 0807112976. p. 12 - 13. Jump up ^ `` Santayana, George ( SNTN896G ) ''. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Jump up ^ Saatkamp, Herman ; Coleman, Martin ( 1 January 2014 ). Zalta, Edward N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University -- via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jump up ^ The Letters of George Santayana : Book Eight, 1948 -- 1952 By George Santayana p 8 : 39 Jump up ^ `` My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe, and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. '' George Santayana, `` On My Friendly Critics, '' in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922 ( from Rawson 's Dictionary of American Quotations via credoreference.com ). Accessed August 1, 2008. Jump up ^ `` Santayana playfully called himself ' a Catholic atheist, ' but in spite of the fact that he deliberately immersed himself in the stream of Catholic religious life, he never took the sacraments. He neither literally regarded himself as a Catholic nor did Catholics regard him as a Catholic. '' Empiricism, Theoretical Constructs, and God, by Kai Nielsen, The Journal of Religion, Vol. 54, No. 3 ( Jul., 1974 ), pp. 199 - 217 ( p. 205 ), published by The University of Chicago Press. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2013 - 09 - 18. Retrieved 2014 - 01 - 07. Jump up ^ George Santayana ; William G. Holzberger ( Editor ). ( 2006 ). The Letters of George Santayana, Book Seven, 1941 - 1947. ( MIT Press ( MA ), Hardcover, 9780262195560, 569pp. ) ( p. 143 ). Jump up ^ `` University Lectures - Secretary of the Faculty ''. Archived from the original on 2013 - 09 - 28. Jump up ^ Michael K. Potter. Bertrand Russell 's Ethics. London and New York : Continuum, 2006. Pp. xiii, 185. ISBN 0826488102, p. 4 Jump up ^ Lensing, George S. ( 1986 ). Wallace Stevens : A Poet 's Growth. LSU Press. 313 pp. ISBN 0807112976. p. 12 - 23. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2013 - 07 - 25. Retrieved 2014 - 01 - 07. Jump up ^ Saatkamp, Herman, `` George Santayana, '' The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( Fall 2010 Edition ), Edward N. Zalta ( ed. ), URL = < http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/santayana/ > Jump up ^ Religious Naturalism Today, pp. 44 -- 52 Jump up ^ Whitehead, A.N. ( 1929 ). Process and Reality. An Essay in Cosmology. Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927 -- 1928, Macmillan, New York, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. Jump up ^ See the sixth paragraph, That 's Not All, Folks ! `` Of course you know this means war. '' Who said it ?, by Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2003, ( Archived at WebCite ). Jump up ^ We Did n't Start the Fire. BillyJoel.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 25. Further reading W. Arnett, 1955. Santayana and the Sense of Beauty, Bloomington, Indiana University Press. H.T. Kirby - Smith, 1997. A Philosophical Novelist : George Santayana and the Last Puritan. Southern Illinois University Press. Jeffers, Thomas L., 2005. Apprenticeships : The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana. New York : Palgrave : 159 -- 84. Lamont, Corliss ( ed., with the assistance of Mary Redmer ), 1959. Dialogue on George Santayana. New York : Horizon Press. McCormick, John, 1987. George Santayana : A Biography. Alfred A. Knopf. The biography. Singer, Irving, 2000. George Santayana, Literary Philosopher. Yale University Press. Miguel Alfonso, Ricardo ( ed. ), 2010, La estética de George Santayana, Madrid : Verbum. Pérez Firmat, Gustavo. Tongue Ties : Logo - Eroticism in Anglo - Hispanic Literature. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Moreno, Daniel. Santayana the Philosopher : Philosophy as a Form of Life. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2015. Translated by Charles Padron. External links Critical Edition of the Works of George Santayana Find more aboutGeorge Santayanaat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource Data from Wikidata Works by George Santayana at Project Gutenberg Works by George Santayana at Faded Page ( Canada ) Works by or about George Santayana at Internet Archive Saatkamp, Herman. `` George Santayana ''. In Zalta, Edward N. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Includes a complete bibliography of the primary literature, and a fair selection of the secondary literature The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy : George Santayana by Matthew C. 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Question: who said those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
Answer: George Santayana