Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a Spanish and American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was the author who created many popular aphorisms, such as “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” “Only the dead have seen the end of war,” and the definition of beauty as “pleasure objectified”. His book of poetry is a source of clever and witty thoughts, where the earthly wisdom takes a harmonious aesthetic shape.
