One of the peculiarities of ...

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

George Santayana

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America is a young country with an old mentality.

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

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