Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period
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Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
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I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.
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Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
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It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature.
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Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
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We've got to go down (to San Antonio) and steal one - (but) we might not even call it a steal. We know that we can play with this team, and we can beat them.
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
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I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.
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