Konrad Adenauer
View AuthorIt is not necessary to always defend the same opinion because no one can prevent becoming wiser.
Henry F. Amiel
View AuthorThe man who aims to see everything clearly before deciding never decides.
Aristotle
View AuthorMan is a political animal.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorIf you ever discover any law, be prudent and do not try to apply it. You have discovered the law... that is enough. Because if this law is physical and you try to apply it to a machine, you will stumble upon brute matter; and if it is a social law, you will stumble upon the brutality of men.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorTruly, I don't know if rightfully or not, I am not amazed by ingenuity, because it is evident that there are many ingenious men in the world. Nor am I astonished by people with memory, no matter how great and wondrous it may be, or by calculators; what amazes me the most is kindness, and I say this without the slightest hint of hypocrisy.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorA lot of people think, or at least feel, that anyone who does not share their habits and enthusiasms is an enemy. In matters of essential ideas, I find intransigence logical.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorThe clarity in science is necessary; but in literature, it is not. To see clearly is philosophy. To see clearly in the mystery is literature. That's what Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Dostoevsky did...
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Pío Baroja
View AuthorIf you want to do something in life, don't believe in the word impossible. Nothing is impossible for a strong will.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorSo in life, many times, one does not know if it is oneself pushing the events or if it is the events that drag one along.
Jean-Louis Barrault
View AuthorMature age is the one in which you are still young, but with much more effort.