Salvador de Madariaga famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Empathy #Indirect #Synthetic
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#War #Lying
Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Men #Wonderful #Behavior
Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Art #Mean #Matter
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Memories #Self #Giving
Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Mean #Liberty #Communicate
A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Hurt #Shots
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Expression #Valleys #Language
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance. The creative evolution of his community and his own creative evolution must always be the two earnest purposes of the individual. Its own creative evolution and that of the individuals in its midst must always be the two earnest purposes of the community.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Hands #Two #Creative
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Reading #Home #Listening
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Sin #Sometimes #Sinner
Circumstances are the seeds of literature.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Literature #Circumstances
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Freedom #Hands #Choices
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Block #Exercise #Hands
Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.
-- Salvador de Madariaga

#Love #Sex #Flower

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