Editing George Santayana (section)

==In popular culture==
Santayana's passing is referenced in the lyrics to singer-songwriter [[Billy Joel]]'s 1989 single "[[We Didn't Start the Fire]]".<ref>[https://www.billyjoel.com/song/we-didnt-start-fire-11/ We Didn't Start the Fire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506081048/https://www.billyjoel.com/song/we-didnt-start-fire-11/ |date=May 6, 2021}}. BillyJoel.com. Retrieved September 25, 2016.</ref>

The quote "Only the dead have seen the end of war" is frequently attributed or [[False attribution|misattributed]] to [[Plato]]; an early example of this misattribution (if it is indeed misattributed) is found in General [[Douglas MacArthur]]'s Farewell Speech given to the Corps of Cadets at [[West Point]] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm|title=Plato FAQ: Did Plato write :"Only the dead have seen the end of war"?|last=SUZANNE|first=Bernard F.|website=plato-dialogues.org|access-date=2018-04-29|archive-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018121745/http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-Really-Said-That-/141559|title=Who Really Said That?|date=2013-09-16|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2018-04-29|archive-date=2018-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625050445/https://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-Really-Said-That-/141559|url-status=live}}</ref><!--

Not notable, comment on attribution is in a fictional context: The aphorism "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is quoted as "unattributable" in Dan Abnett's novel ''[[Prospero Burns]]''.-->