Santayana's main philosophical work consists of The Sense of Beauty ( 1896 ), his first book-length monograph and perhaps the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States ; The Life of Reason five volumes, 1905 – 6, the high point of his Harvard career ; Scepticism and Animal Faith ( 1923 ); and The Realms of Being ( 4 vols., 1927 – 40 ).

Santayana's one novel, The Last Puritan, is a bildungsroman — that is, a novel that centers on the personal growth of the protagonist.

George Santayana's America: Essays on Literature and Culture.

George Santayana's Poetry and Religion ( 1900 ) has an essay on his concept of La gloire du néant.

The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that " those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

* In lecturing Dilbeck, Moldowsky crudely paraphrases George Santayana's famous aphorism, " Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

" The latter sentence is often ( for example, at the start of the film Black Hawk Down ) falsely attributed to Plato ; the former appears in Reason in Common Sense, the first volume of Santayana's five-volume Life of Reason.

Santayana's Reason in Common Sense was published in five volumes between 1905 and 1906 ; this edition is from 1920

Of another colleague, George Santayana, he could write: `` The great event in my life recently has been the reading of Santayana's book.

Chuck Jones used Santayana's description of fanaticism as " redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim " to describe his cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

Although he is regarded by most as an excellent prose stylist, Professor John Lachs ( who is sympathetic with much of Santayana's philosophy ) writes in his book On Santayana that the latter's eloquence may ultimately be the cause of this neglect.

Santayana's autobiography, incorporating Persons and Places, 1944 ; The Middle Span, 1945 ; and My Host the World, 1953.

George Santayana's Marginalia: A Critical Selection.

George Santayana was also a philosopher who wrote novels and poetry ; the relationship between Santayana's characters and his beliefs is more complex.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

Trevelyan centers too exclusively on Bright, is insufficiently appreciative of the views of Bright's opponents and critics, and makes light of the genuine difficulties faced by Peel.

In their views on dating, courtship, sex, and family life, our students prefer what they are expected to prefer.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

A great deal depends on the crystallization of Mr. Kennedy's views on the world struggle.

On ships at sea, on railroad trains, in summer hotels with mountain views, they always said, `` I've never done this before ''.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

Before the president recommends a candidate to the trustees, the administration collects the views of colleagues in the same field of knowledge on campus and elsewhere.

An area on the coast may have relaxing views of the surf rolling in on a beach.

By submerging the patient in a tub and rotating the transducer while the scanning goes on, they have been able to get cross-section views of the neck, as shown in Fig. 7, as well as many other hitherto impossible insights.

An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.

The meeting will, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity for the first personal contact between them and a general exchange of views on the major issues which affect the relationships between the two countries ''.

In Michigan, there is fine color on route 27 up to the Mackinac Straits, while the views around Marquette and Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula are spectacular.

Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics.

John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world, movement, and other elements of Aristotelian thought.

Swami Sivananda, an Advaita scholar, reiterates the same views in his commentary synthesising Vedanta views on the Brahma Sutras, a Vedantic text.

There exists a wide range of philosophical views on man's obligations or motivations to act altruistically.

The failure to formally object at the time, to what one views as improper action in the lower court, may result in the affirmance of the lower court's judgment on the grounds that one did not " preserve the issue for appeal " by objecting.

Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics.

* Historical revisionism, the reinterpretation of orthodox views on history or historiography

The Christology of Jehovah's Witnesses is also generally regarded as Arian, given their views on development of the Trinity.

Section three discusses his views of how a Jew should understand the nature of Judaism as a religion.

In addition to each having varied views on the other as a religion, there has also been a long and often painful history of conflict, persecution and at times, reconciliation, between the two religions, which have influenced their mutual views of their relationship over time.

The question of what were Hume's personal views on religion is a difficult one.

As a replacement for organized religion, he espoused a mixture of deism, Spinoza's naturalist views, and precursors of Transcendentalism, with man acting as a free agent within the natural world.

Landgrebe is known as one of Husserl's closest associates, but also for his independent views relating to history, religion and politics as seen from the viewpoints of existentialist philosophy and metaphysics.

Mr. Baum cleverly disguised his views on life, politics, and religion.

His views on religion presented in his works of philosophy, however, may strike some as discordant with the doctrines of both Catholicism and Calvinism.

Carlo Ginzburg, on the other hand, regards Cohn's views as a polemic and believes that although Murray was too eager to accept all testimonies as accurate, and failed to critically differentiate those elements introduced by the interventions of judges, inquisitors and demonologists, she still had a " correct intuition " in identifying the remnants of a pre-Christian ' religion of Diana ', and in believing that witch-trial testimonies did at times represent actual or perceived experiences.

In contrast, one might think, to his polemical works on religion and his empiricism-driven skeptical epistemology, Hume's views on law and property were quite conservative.

Puritans were blocked from changing the established church from within, and severely restricted in England by laws controlling the practice of religion, but their views were taken by the emigration of congregations to the Netherlands and later New England, United States, and by evangelical clergy to Ireland and later into Wales, and were spread into lay society by preaching and parts of the educational system, particularly certain colleges of the University of Cambridge.

#*:" In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 – 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic ; and I then promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

Holyoake invented the term " secularism " to describe his views of promoting a social order separate from religion, without actively dismissing or criticizing religious belief.

A return to traditional views of sharia: There is a long-running worldwide movement underway by Muslims towards a better understanding and practice of their religion.

Dziennik is not only the author ’ s record of life but also a philosophical essay, polemics, collection of auto-reflection on folk poetry, views on politics, national culture, religion, world of tradition, present time, and many other important issues.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

There is no word for religion in the ancient Egyptian language as mundane and religious world views were not distinct ; thus, Heka was not a secular practice but rather a religious observance.

In some of his speeches Hitler appeared to be close to Rosenberg's views: rejecting traditional Christianity as a religion based on Jewish culture, preferring an ethnically and culturally pure " Race " whose destiny was supposed to be assigned to the German people by " Providence ".

Its unconventional views on religion and relations between the sexes led to much controversy.

" In his 1999 best-selling memoir I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, Ventura responded to the controversy sparked by these remarks by elaborating on his views concerning religion:

The memorial service made her ecumenical and often highly personal views on matters of religion public.

CIO Magazine columnist Dean Meyer has also presented some cautionary views of ITIL, including five pitfalls such as " becoming a slave to outdated definitions " and " Letting ITIL become religion.

Due to historical accidents of geography, culture and influence between different groups, members of a given religion slowly begin to diverge in their views.

Over time members of a religion may find that they have developed significantly different views on theology, philosophy, religious pluralism, ethics and religious practices and rituals.