Author: George Santayana

Cited by

• Medbh McGuckian (1)
  • IN: My Love has Fared Inland (2008) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is when sound abandons the servile fuction of signification and develops itself freely as music, that is becomes thoroughly vital and its own excuse for being.
    FROM: Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government, (1951), Book, Spain
• Tim Lebbon (1)
  • IN: London Eye (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
    FROM: Little Essays Drawn From the Writings of George Santayana, (1920), Book, Spain
• Stephen King (1)
  • IN: Duma Key (2008) Fiction, horror, Psychological Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: Memory...is an internal rumor.
    FROM: The Life of Reason, (1906), Book, Spain/US
• Annie Proulx (1)
  • IN: Barkskins (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
    FROM: Letter to Logan Pearsall Smith, (1918), Letter, Spain
• William Lashner (1)
  • IN: Hostile Witness (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
    FROM: Introduction to "The Ethics of Spinoza", (1910), NULL, Spain
• David Lyons (1)
  • IN: Blood Game (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
    FROM: Reason in Common Sense, (1906), Book, Spain
• Edna Buchanan (2)
  • IN: Dark and Lonely Place (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    FROM: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress Vol I, (1905), Book, Spain/ Italy
  • IN: A Dark and Lonely Place (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    FROM: The Life of Reason, (1906), Book, Spain