Coffee Talks (selected quotes)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
possible decline in the unmerited attentions and hyperbolic praise. About commend you award new or excess solvent and you think you are expecting pay usurious interest.
Matters *
The much talk about it among other very serious problems preventing the knowledge depths of our partners, converted because of our enigmatic verbiage in listeners. The tyrants of the monologue are prepared unconsciously big disappointment. *
Nature, sighted in everything, has made ugly and fruitless to decrepitude to spend no gunpowder saved.
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of guys think, "I am immortal." Of old say "I die without having lived, or what is more sad:" I have not heard live. " And think the same if our life will last, saying the naturalists, the three hundred years or two hundred crocodile elephant.
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The practical end of civilization is to require the death to make each day longer lobby in front of our bedroom.
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A. - Our Mutual Friend G. is in high dudgeon with me, but I need it now and you'd appreciate infinity, which exerts overwhelming influence on him, we reconciled.
B. "I think I'll get as serious as has been the offense. Tell me what happened. Have you refused money?
A. - No.
B. - Have you called rogue?
A. - Nor.
B. - Have you seduced or attempted to seduce his wife?
A. - less even. I simply express timidly in a circle of friends who had little talent.
B. - My friend, renounce reconciled. You've created an enemy for life ...
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is difficult to be very friendly without being friends something enemy of justice.
Older youth recommending continence and moderation that remind me of ninety Napoleonic general that attacked and ransacked a city, and witnessing the disgusting orgies of unbridled love, chastised officials saying, "Is this the example you give?".
* Truth is a corrosive acid that splashes almost always handles it.
* Routine and habit we often impose more absurd acts. Most of the men we passed what the frogs or flies decapitated, who are bent on preserving and protecting the head after losing it.
* If there is something truly divine in us is the will. Affirm the personality for it, tempered character, adversity, challenge, correct the brain and we excel daily.
* You complain of the censorship of your teachers, rivals and foes, when you ought to thank them, their shots do not hurt you, I sculpt.
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The tumult of social life generally achieved, on weak human heads, like the river on a quartz crystal, dragged and beaten by the current, becomes, at last, vulgar pebbles. Who want to keep intact the brilliant facets of his mind, pick up quickly in the haven of solitude, as conducive to creative activity.
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laborious
The largest are those who have learned to manage their laziness methodically. The feverish activity, paroxysmal, falls rapidly in the fatigue and disillusionment, impairs the machine until you have managed to refine the product.
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The long-cherished error as the wheel is located in the hole. The float is self-love stubbornly to save him but only gets deeper and more serious tread the jam.
When you see a writer who gets to everyone, is aiming to target everyone with him. Not having managed to be admired, yearns to be feared.
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The paradox that Amiel regarded as the supreme delicacy of men of genius, is foolproof against routine salutary thought. It is the stone thrown into the marsh frogs scare humans and begin to croak. And, after the scare, some end up thinking for themselves.
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The silence of the envious is the best compliment to can expect an author.
* We will be forgotten. If, in time, some curious bookworm discovers, by lending shooting now is to justify our neglect pedantically.
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There are books of imagination beauties and excellences that were undetected by the author. They are like the iridescence of nacre, visible to the naked eye only after the death of the mollusk.
* Chimeric
seems as old Horace said, trying to please everyone. Would have to write a book for every reader, and even for every period of mental development it. As the projectile, each work can only hurt a heart full.
* Why men fight? To purchase, in case of victory, a piece of land to be prematurely buried, out of his house.
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cartilaginea
A spinster, moody and representative of the humane society railed bitterly a professor of physiology to practice vivisection on cats
"The animals do," said physiologist amostazado-because the laws do not allow still performed on tomboys.
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Ateneo is discussed in the hackneyed subject of little or no remuneration of the teacher. All lamented the plight of the suffering class, much hyped in operettas and farces, when Zahonero rose to say: "If you do not charge
, his is the blame, because in thirty years of work have failed to raise a generation that will pay.
The beautiful drawings that accompany this release are the very Santiago Ramon y Cajal and part of their investigacionbes on neurons that earned him the unanimous recognition worldwide, including 1906 Nobel Prize .
Edition Coffee Talks of of which I have taken these quotations is the second in the Southern Stock of Espasa-Calpe and was published in 1943 in Buenos Aires.
thank my brother José María technical facilities provided for the publication of this post .
