Miguel
Miguel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 October 1985
CountryUnited States of America
sacrifice men vanity
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
men darkness despair
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
science ignorant doubt
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
life falling-in-love fall
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
art fall men
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
lying believe men
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
issues ideas may
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
grief order amusement
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.
knowledge goal sake
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
love birthday death
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
people height faces
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
fate men unjust
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.
knowing religion atheism
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.