George Santayana

George Santayana (1863–1952) was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, essayist, novelist, and critic renowned for his materialist philosophy reconciling spirit and nature, contributions to aesthetics and ethics, and aphorisms like 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' Born in Madrid, he moved to Boston at age eight, taught at Harvard until 1912, then lived in Europe, primarily Rome, as a prolific writer including the novel *The Last Puritan*.[1][2][4][5]