Spain

🇪🇸Alfredo Di Stéfano

Sports

1926–2014

"Finals are not to be played; they are to be won."

🇪🇸Abel Azcona

Art

contemporary art

b. 1988

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

🇪🇸Penélope Cruz

Art

b. 1974

"The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young."

🇪🇸Federico García Lorca

Literature

Generation of ‘27

1898–1936

"But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed."

🇪🇸José Ortega y Gasset

Philosophy

Noucentisme

1883–1955

"That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them"

🇪🇸Millie Bobby Brown

Science

b. 2004

"Noah is my best friend. We're the same age. We do everything together. We go to Six Flags. We have play dates. I mean, we are children."

🇪🇸Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Literature

Mannerism

1547–1616

"Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

🇪🇸Salvador Dalí

Art

Surrealism

1904–1989

"There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction."

🇪🇸Miguel de Unamuno

Literature

Generation of '98

1864–1936

"One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...opium...opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream."

🇪🇸José Martí

Literature

1853–1895

"Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests."

🇪🇸Oscar Horta

Philosophy

b. 1974

"Ethics Beyond the Species - Oscar Horta's personal blog"

🇪🇸Buenaventura Durruti

Politics

1896–1936

"You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough."

🇪🇸Manuel Castells

urban sociology

b. 1942

"The Internet is no longer a free realm, but neither has it fulfilled the Orwellian prophecy. It is a contested terrain, where the new, fundamental battle for freedom in the Information Age is being fought."

🇪🇸George Santayana

Literature

1863–1952

"The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be."

🇪🇸Francisco Franco

Literature

1892–1975

"The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land."

🇪🇸Teresa of Ávila

Religion

1515–1582

"Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true."

🇪🇸Mariano Rajoy

Politics

b. 1955

"As Galileo said, the movement always accelerates when it is going to stop."

🇪🇸Rafael Nadal

Sports

b. 1986

"Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!"

"We are part of the ecosystem, although because we did not evolve as humans, I feel we are like an invasive species. The bottom line is that we take out of the ocean what we like, and throw in what we don’t want."

🇪🇸Catherine of Aragon

Politics

1485–1536

"Did I not tell you that whenever you argue with the Queen she is sure to have the upper hand?! I see that one fine morning you will succumb to her reasoning and cast me off!"

🇪🇸Josemaría Escrivá

Literature

1902–1975

"Even in our times, despite those who deny God, earth is very close to Heaven."

"Regretting having to die should be structurally identical to regretting being born, because it is not in our power being born in a non-mortal way."

🇪🇸Antonio Llidó

Religion

Socialism

1936–1974

"In Focus: ANTONIO LLIDO Material translated into English from the Memoria y justicia organisation Chile website"

🇪🇸Luis Buñuel

Entertainment

Surrealism

1900–1983

"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."

🇪🇸José María Aznar

Politics

b. 1953

"Yesterday I went to White House, talk to... president's Bush. Why reason? One reason, he is my friend. I am very friends in the United States and one is the president."

🇪🇸Eduardo Torroja

Technology

1899–1961

"very structure has a resistant function to fulfill... to ensure ...the static equilibrium of the structure for a long period of time."

🇪🇸Juan Ramón Jiménez

Literature

Generation of 1914

1881–1958

"Platero is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs."

🇪🇸Pedro Muñoz Seca

Literature

1881–1936

"It's all right for women to cry, as it is for men to remember."

🇪🇸Baltasar Gracián

Philosophy

1601–1658

"Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose."

🇪🇸Ignatius of Loyola

Religion

1491–1556

"Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison."

🇪🇸José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Politics

b. 1960

"In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people."

🇪🇸Francisco Goya

Art

Romanticism

1746–1828

"A bride-to-be, Discreet and penitent, she presents herself to her parents in this guise."

"Shackled and emaciated, Eta killer pleads for peace from his deathbed, entrevista con De Juana publicada por el diario británico The Times el 5 de febrero de 2007."

🇪🇸Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Science

1852–1934

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

🇪🇸Manuel Fraga Iribarne

Politics

1922–2012

"Those who have not learnt from Gasteiz will be responsible for their own acts. Those who want to fight, will be fought. With all of its consequences. Stop being fool."

🇪🇸Pablo Picasso

Art

Post-impressionism

1881–1973

"I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. ."

🇪🇸Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Literature

Baroque literature

1600–1681

"When love is not madness it is not love."