Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Miguel de Unamuno

• Evil
• Consciousness
• Depressing
• Diminish

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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
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  • Great
  • She

• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Life
  • Freedom
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• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
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• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • May
  • Sometimes

• My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • God
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Time
  • School
  • Love

• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  

  Barney Frank
  • America
  • True
  • King

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Practice

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• Excellent in every way around the glens The two skilful ones make inquiries

  

  Taliesin

• I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Many of you are well enough off that… the tax cuts may have helped you… We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Good
  • May
  • America

• All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Friend
  • Religions

• It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

  

  Erica Jong
  • City
  • Mirrors
  • Mirages

• Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.

  

  Zeina
  • World
  • Good
  • Soul

• Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Nature

• Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

  

  George Eliot
  • Growth
  • Consciousness
  • Circulation

• Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Evil
  • Consciousness
  • Depressing