Quotations

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by Cervantes

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
—El Licenciado Vidriera in Novelas Ejemplares

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

"He preaches well who lives well," replied Sancho, "and I know no other theologies than that."
—Don Quixote

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

The road is always better than the inn.

about Don Quixote

And the philosophy of Don Quixote cannot strictly be called idealism; he did not fight for ideas. It was of the spiritual order; he fought for the spirit.
—Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

If, as some say, in Spain Don Quixote is dead and Sancho lives, then we are saved, for Sancho, his master dead, will become a knight-errant himself. And at any rate he is waiting for some other mad knight to follow again.
—Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

And it is not that Don Quixote does not understand what those understand who talk thus to him, those who succeed in resigning themselves and accepting rational life and rational truth. No, it is that the needs of his heart are greater.
—Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life