Alain
View AuthorNothing possible is beautiful, only the real is beautiful.
Alain
View AuthorThere is nothing more dangerous than an idea when you only have one.
Samuel Alexander
View AuthorPhilosophy can be described as the experimental or empirical study, and the relationships that derive from the empirical with the 'a priori'.
Gaston Bachelard
View AuthorThe poet's first task is to unmoor within us a substance that wants to dream.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorI have preferred to study books rather than men.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorBeauty is like summer fruit: easy to corrupt and short-lived.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorOne should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorArt is born in the brain, not in the heart.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorReinforced concrete is an honest and useful muse, and perhaps in the hands of a brilliant architect it would be admirable; but when it gets out of control and feels bold, like a cook turned cabaret singer, it commits such horrors that it should be restrained and taken to jail.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorIt seemed so beautiful to me that I couldn't remember how it looked afterwards.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorLiterature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses, and life does not.