Those Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It By Philosopher George Santayana

This quote shows that you should never say you will never do anything by reason of years later you might do it and

“You are unable to remember real events, and persuade yourself that you remember other events which never happened”

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future- Frederick Douglass.

“every generation , every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may

“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past” written by Tyron Edwards. Sometimes changing your behavior is the only way to make up for a past, because you learn what are right actions, and what are wrong actions.

It is always good to learn from your mistakes. Sometimes mistakes can be considered good things because it lets a person change how they do something and that there could be many ways for doing one task.

Remembering the past is important, your past is how you got to where you are now. The past has helped shape who you are today. Although you can help change your future, the past is unchanged you can never change the past, the past is something that will always be with you, and it’s part of who you are. When you can’t remember the past you will have a hard time preparing for the future. Remembering is important for Jews, and non-Jews because when you stop remembering your past you start to lose your identity, and can’t learn from yours, or others mistakes.

This quote had a big influence on me as a reader for the reason that we as individuals may have wounds from our past.

On the surface level, one could assume that when a person makes a mistake, they have failed. Most would come to the conclusion that if one does not do something correctly then they will have failed at what they were trying to do, and this shows that the first part of this quote is, essentially, accurate. However, when paired with the second part of the quote, the first part becomes clearer. A person that makes a mistake is not necessarily a failure unless they learned nothing from the mistake. Everyone makes mistakes, but that does not make everyone a failure. Being a failure constitutes so much more than making simple mistakes. Unless someone repeatedly makes the same error and does nothing to improve, they should not be considered a failure. This can be exemplified by a rather simple comparison: if one forgets to turn in one assignment for a class, they will not necessarily fail, however, if they constantly do not turn in their assignments, they will most likely end up failing the class. Repetitious errors demonstrate a lack of ability to improve one’s self which probably shows a lack of caring. This would constitute a failure because the person is doing the same thing over and over again without trying anything new that would warrant a different result. Unless a person does not attempt to correct their mistake in any manner, they should not be considered a failure, but if they have gained nothing from the experience, then they are a failure because the opportunity to learn something new was presented to them and they did nothing with it. One mistake does not define a person, but rather the ability to learn or not to learn from mistakes is what defines a

Quote #1 - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ̶ George Santayana

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” - Confucius

There's a famous quote by George Santayana that states “Those who cannot remember the past are commanded to repeat it” (The life of Reason, 1905) Do you believe that Santayana had a point by saying such as thing ? There’s a book called “The Crucible” which centers around the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1690’s. There were signs of something that started off small but led to something bigger. Americans still see those signs today, but we chose to not learn from what happened in the past. The Crucible is a resource everyone could learn something from that could help us modern Americans.

The quote in the book Three Times Lucky, “We can’t change the past, Solider. We can only be grateful for a new day, and move on”(Turnage, 225). This quote means a lot to me in life. The past already happened and we can’t go back in time to change it, but what we can do is be glad that there’s new day coming to us and not make the same mistakes as we did in the past. We learn from our past, so in the future we can become a better person than what we were in the former years. Also we can’t be living in the past forever, so we have to be thankful that there’s a destiny in front of us and move on. This quote inspires me this year in English class is I can’t change what I did or did not learn in my previous years in English class, but I can use

I like your quote but I what find amazing about this quote, is the fact that it emphasizes how people who fail to learn will be condemned to repeat it. Condemned, here illustrates that the past which is hunting will be repeated. For example, many of us have heard or watched movies pertaining to the Holocaust; but there a section of the society who believes or pretend the holocaust never took place. For those people, when this event appears on the horizon the will be condemned because they refuse to believe the first

George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Following this quote, I would be expected to discuss some of the terrible actions committed in our history and that if we don’t learn about these events, they are bound to be repeated in the future. Well I slightly disagree; let us repeat history. Although our nation has endured dark and shameful times, our history is also honorable and full of progress, innovation, patriotism, and triumph. The United States’ history should not be confined to the worn pages of textbooks or preached only by teachers across America. It needs to be shouted from rooftops by all citizens so that we may, yes, repeat it, again and again.