Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Each new friend we make in the race of life perfects and enriches us even more through what it reveals about ourselves, rather than what it gives us.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Don't give someone what they ask for, but rather what you understand they need; and then endure the ingratitude.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Never despair, even in the darkest afflictions, for from black clouds falls clean and fecundating water.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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What good is it to try to define happiness if one cannot become happy through it?

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Most people are afraid of death because they haven't done anything with their life.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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I don't believe that friends are necessarily the people you like the most, they are simply the people who were there first.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Unfortunately, the balance of nature stipulates that the superabundance of dreams is paid for with an increase in nightmares.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Parents are the bones with which children sharpen their teeth.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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Since we are destined to live our lives in the prison of our mind, let us at least furnish it well.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The universe, with all its splendor and beauty, is chaos for the man without faith.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The visible universe, that is, the realization or embodiment of divine thought, is the occasional cause of science.