George Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Santayana in 1931
Santayana lived in Hollis Hall as a student at Harvard.
Santayana early in his career
Santayana's famous aphorism "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Polish translation and English back-translation (above), and on a subway placard in Germany (below).
The Department of Philosophy is an academic department within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Harvard College, pictured in 1767, was originally an institution of religious training with philosophical instruction focusing on moral philosophy and logic.
William James, founder of pragmatism and American psychology, is condsidered one of the most influential American philosophers.