Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

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• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Crystal
  • Fraction

• Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I channel surf like probably most people.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • Like
  • Most

• I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Time
  • Growing

• I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Romantic

• My parents really encouraged me.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Really

• Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Risk

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. 'What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you won’t use it?'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Boy
  • Library

• Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Mr Johnson 'You know what a Tory is – one who wants to drive the working men as he'd drive cattle.'

  

  George Eliot
  • Men

• Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

  

  R. D. Laing

• Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Men
  • Facts
  • Phantoms