Celebres phrases by Gregorio Marañón

Gregorio Marañón He was a Spanish doctor, scientist, historian and thinker who lived between 1887 and 1960. Belonged to the generation of 1914 and his works and thought had a great national and international relevance.

Gregorio Marañón was a professor of endocrinology in Madrid and is considered the father of the endocrinology Spanish. It was also academic in 5 of the 8 Royal Spanish Academies. In short, an intellectual in the first row.

Gregorio Marañón He had a very prominent role in the proclamation of the II Spanish Republic, being one of his Founders and spiritual parents, Next to Ortega y Gasset and Pérez de Ayala. Promptly, and seeing the escalation of crimes, looting, fires, corruption and violence in which the Republic degenerated, completely distanced itself from it, next to the rest of the founding parents, and ended up alienating the National Spain.

Celebres phrases by Gregorio Marañón

Living is not only to exist, but to exist and create, know how to enjoy and suffer, and not sleep without dreaming. Rest, is start dying.

Only the one who knows is free and freer who knows the most. Do not proclaim the freedom to fly, but give wings.

Although the truth of the facts shines, men will always be beaten in the subtle trench of interpretations.

If the penalty doesn't die, he kills her.

Nostalgia not imposed, but dear, is the purest way of patriotism.

The man is the one who makes the story; The woman has the mission of making the father of history.

My respect and my love for the truth force me to recognize that the Spanish Republic has been a tragic failure.

These are the exact terms of the problem. A struggle between an antidemocratic, communist and eastern regime and another anti -democratic, anti -communist and European regime, whose exact formula only Spanish reality, infinitely thriving, will model.

Although on the red side there would not be a single soldier or a single Moscow rifle, it would be the same: Red Spain is spiritually Russian communist. On the national side, although there were millions of Italians and Germans, the spirit of people is, with their virtues and their defects, infinitely Spanish, more Spanish than ever.

What people! (In reference to the leaders of the side republican) Everything is in them Latrocinio, madness, stupidity (...) we will have to be cursing the stupidity and channel of these criminal cretins, and we will not have finished. How to put but, even if there are those on the other side? (…). And my pain is still greater for being a friend of such beetles.

The uprising of Asturias in October 1934 was an attempt in the rule of execution of the communist plan to conquer Spain. (…) The communist movement of Asturias failed by pure miracle. But two years later he had his second and formidable attempt.

More phrases by Gregorio Marañón

You don't have to strive a lot, my friends; You listen to this argument: eighty -eight percent of the teachers of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona [the three universities that, together with Murcia, had remained in the hands of the Republicans] has had to flee abroad, leave Spain, escape Who can. And do you know why? Simply because they were afraid to be killed by the Reds, although many of the threatened intellectuals were held by leftist men.

Happiness is a fundamentally negative feeling: the absence of pain.

The capacity of enthusiasm is a sign of spiritual health.

You will not know everything that is worth until you can be next to you everything I am.

You have more qualities than you think; But to know if the coins are good, you have to roll them, make them circular. Spend your treasure.

Loving and suffering is, in the long run, the only way to live with fullness and dignity.

True sexuality is not the simple approach of the sexes, but the creative work of the man and the maternity of women.

It is easier to die for an idea, and I would still add than less heroic, than to try to understand the ideas of others.

The library of a man is also his portrait, and so fine that they cannot match the most exact brushes or the most penetrating and faithful pen of the best biographer. The books that each one chooses for their recess, for their instruction, even for their vanity, are true fingerprints of the spirit, which allow its exact identification.

Oppositions are the bloodiest national show after bulls.

The progress of humanity, as regards the sexual problem, must be based on an increasingly net differentiation of the sexes. We are in a delayed stage of this differentiation.

The whole history of human progress can be reduced to the struggle of science against superstition.

Believing Protected from God Corroe and destroys tension for effort.

The truth is not only behind the experiment, but also behind the simple and fruitful observation.