42 quotes
Spanish-American philosopher
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
"The man who is not permitted to own is owned."
on Freedom
"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
on Wisdom
"Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
on Happiness
"Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility."
on Death
"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said."
on Art
"There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval."
on Life
"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."
"The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality."
on Philosophy
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval"
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
"Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others."
on Compassion
"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."
"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility."
on Psychology
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
on Culture
"Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired."
"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
on Communication
