Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana, “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense”
Many years ago you taught me about how to learn from the past. I use that lesson every day, even more so in these times of unprecedented unpredictability.
Read Santayana’s elegant treatise on moral philosophy, “The Life of Reason” at the Gutenberg Project [full text online | download an ePub]