The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and theologian William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
George Santayana
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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.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
…great virtue of The Varieties, noted pragmatist philosopher Charles Peirce, is its "penetration into the hearts of people." Its great weakness, retorted George Santayana, is its "tendency to disintegrate the idea of truth, to recommend belief without reason and to encourage superstition." In 1913 Josiah Royce wrote a…
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).
Along with Wendell Phillips and John F. Kennedy, Santayana is quoted on a military plaque at Veterans Memorial Park in Rhome, Texas.