Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.


The Life of Reason, or the Phases of Human Progress (1954)

George Santayana Quotes

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set...