Jorge [George] Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952) was born in Madrid and died in Rome. In the interim, he was educated at the Boston Latin School, Harvard (where he studied with William James and Josiah Royce) and King’s College, Cambridge. He taught at Harvard from 1888 to 1912, contributing significantly to what has been termed the “Golden Age” of the university’s philosophy department. Among his students at Harvard were T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann, and W. E. B. Du Bois. He eventually left academia and devoted himself to writing. (Image from Wikimedia Commons)
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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