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Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

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To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 9th, 1883

Died: October 18th, 1955

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