Mark Twain
View AuthorStay away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can be great.
Francisco Umbral
View AuthorLife is not noble, nor good, nor sacred, and I find nothing to respect or venerate in heaven or on earth... but thanks to this son born and lost, there will always be for me, in the purest of light, a sacred being, a creature of gold.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorEvery act of kindness is a demonstration of power.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorThe way to hit the nail once is to hit the horseshoe a hundred times.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorHe knows everything, absolutely everything. Imagine how silly he must be.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorThat spiritual greed of those who, knowing something, do not seek the transmission of that knowledge, is detestable.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorThe satisfied, the happy, do not love; they fall asleep in habit.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorLife is not a dream. The most vigorous spiritual touch is the need for persistence in one form or another. The longing to extend in time and space.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorOnly he who knows is free, and the more one knows, the freer one is. Do not proclaim the freedom to fly, but give wings.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorA lonely man is always in bad company.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorA competent person is someone who makes mistakes according to the rules.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorSometimes reason seems to me to be the faculty of our soul to not understand anything about our body.