Quotes by spanish authors

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana
Man Simplicity Foe Spirit Sophistication Been
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana
Live Society Air Like Insufficient Breathe Necessary
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana
Confusion Chaos Our Minds Name Any Order Produces
Oaths are the fossils of piety. George Santayana
Oaths Piety Fossils
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. George Santayana
Too Our Press Kind Would Would-Be Polite Courtesy Offense Conventions Against Skepticism Far Doubts
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana
Education Great Experience Difficulty Out Ideas Get
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana
Beautiful World Liberty Wealth Walk Possessions Would About Adorn Take Like Beautiful Things Sort Because Private Personal Any Decline Should Away Among Things
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
Death Enjoy Interval Birth Cure Save
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana
Savage Man Fool Will Young Older Laugh Wept Young Man Who Older Man
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. George Santayana
Experience Draw Seems Lead Never Most Conclusions Them Us Sworn
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana
Thought Naught Plato
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. George Santayana
Time Evil Ruins Total Absolutely Existence Optimism Any Anywhere
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. Hernan Cortes
Dark He Safest Who Travels Night
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. Hernan Cortes
Speak Water Half Seville City Some Principal Very Inferior Straight Land Large Wide Streets
I mix mayonnaise, ketchup and brandy and a little bit of mustard. This is a heck of a good sauce for seafood. Jose Andres
Good Bit Mustard Mix Brandy Mayonnaise Heck Little Little Bit Seafood Sauce Ketchup
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction. Jose Carreras
Life Best Great Family Strong Values My Life Extraordinarily Moral Able Born Moral Values Above Liked Am Deep Lucky Satisfaction Inner
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Genius Better See Magic Magic Wand Inspiration Clearly Beware Like Sort Wand Anybody Wants Sparingly Should Used Notions Who Things
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Man Invent Poet Live Nonexistent His Lot Begins Human Ends Where Human Life
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Made Absence Which Barbarism Standards Appeal
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Future Live Consists Direction Individual Individual Life Toward Operation Because Making Doing Inexorably Itself Done Which Forward Each Each Individual Lives
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Man Duty Degradation Simply His Refused Manner Who
People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there. Justo Gallego
God You Happy People Feelings Lost Else India Something Something Else Only Look Make Because Around Material Material Things Permission Go His Off Going Just Decide Holiday Soccer Them Ask Based Travelling Right Things
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. Luis Bunuel
Life Wait Final Entire Entire Life Only Erase Amnesia
Just enjoy every moment - don't stress. Just be yourself. Mabel
Yourself Stress Be Yourself Just Be Enjoy Every Just Just Be Yourself Moment
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Maimonides
Respect Confused Too Much Will Power Too Apprehend Apprehension Alike Able Had Studies He Powers Within Been His Reflective Person Which Much Body Even
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. Maimonides
Respect Destruction Destroyed Only Through Permanent Nor Subject Essence Substance Form Transient Bodies
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