💬 Quotes

"I was arrested at Finisterre under the absurd suspicion of being a spy of Don Carlos, simply because I carried books and an umbrella in a lonely region."

"A prison in Spain is a frightful place; yet within its walls I found a strange community of characters, from hardened bandits to political prisoners, all eager to listen to the words of the Bible."

"Trust in the Lord, and fear no man; the Spaniard respects courage above all things, and if you meet his suspicious eye with a steady gaze and a kind word, his hostility will often turn to admiration."

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."

"The service of philosophy, and of religion and art, to us is just to rouse, to startle this indifferent sea of the mind to life and action."

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the greatest possible ripeness of mind?"

"The beauty of the Renaissance is an untrue beauty, because it is the beauty of a feverish night, of a world about to be superseded."

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

"I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith."

"Reason has insight only into that which it produces after a plan of its own."

"Time is not something which exists of itself, or as an objective property, and it is therefore the subjective condition of our intuition."

"The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space."

"By a transcendental cognition I understand every cognition which occupies itself not so much with objects as with the mode of our cognition of objects in general."

"Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul."

"The other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created."

"In time of desolation never to make any change, but to remain firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding the desolation."

"Love ought to be put more in deeds than in words."

"Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and all my will—all that I have and possess."