(December 16, 1863–September 26, 1952), was an American philosopher, poet and essayist. He taught philosophy at Harvard University for 23 years. His works include: The Sense of Beauty, 1896; The Life of Reason, 1905–06; Character and Opinion in the United States, 1920; The Realm of Truth, 1920–40; The Last Puritan, 1935; Persons and Places, 1945; and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 1946. George Santayana taught:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.3064
In his Dialogues in Limbo, 1926, George Santayana wrote:
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.3065
In The Genteel Tradition at Bay, 1931, George Santayana wrote:
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.3066