Miguel Quotes

When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

The devil is an angel too.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.

I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.

It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.

I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

I don't care what any writer says about me ... I just want to play my game.

I like people recognizing me.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.