Word: santayana
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...extent that policymakers and spokesmen for both left and right can avoid historymongering, so much the better. There is a converse to Philosopher George Santayana's famous warning, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." It is equally true that those who dwell obsessively on the past are prone to poor analysis, divisive debate, unconstructive criticism and bad decisions as they face the future. In short, they are doomed to ask the wrong questions, which can only yield the wrong answers. -By Strobe Talbott
...Neill had published a series of erudite feuilletons on such figures as Hawthorne, Henry Adams and William Randolph Hearst; or Howard Baker had come out with a sheaf of witty commentaries on the likes of Whitman, Santayana and Bernard Baruch. Michael Foot is, after all, not a professional man of letters. He is a politician, the leader of Britain's Labor Party, and, as such, his country's shadow Prime Minister...
Gordon's women never fully return to the religion they relinquish. They remain what Santayana once called "Catholic atheists." They are torn, nonbelievers in a Christian world. They sacrifice, remain uncomfortably independent but not free. They are unsettled but satisfied in their place before the Absolute in the company of women...
...Harvard people embrace individual Mormon ethics and metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...
...gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature. He gained acceptance to the narrow circle of Harvard's academic elite: the favorite student of George Santayana, he was also on intimate terms with William James...