Quotes by Spanish Authors - Page 2

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
George Santayana
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Charles V
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracián
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
George Santayana
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
José Ortega y Gasset
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracián
There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.
Joseph Ibn Pakuda
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Each day each hour an entire life.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spick and span new.
Miguel de Cervantes
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
Pablo Casals
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
George Santayana
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Charles V
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracián
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
George Santayana
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
José Ortega y Gasset
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno