The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida as translated by J.
Recalled by Walter Starkie from a conversation he had with Unamuno, as related in the Epilogue of Unamuno. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. La Agonía del Cristianismo ( The Agony of Christianity) (1931). Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself. 
Isolation is the worst possible counselor. There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (1920) Two Mothers. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions - perhaps so that we could believe in them. We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us?. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. La función más noble de los objetos es la de ser contemplados. El use estropea y hasta destruye toda belleza. It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. 
Quotes Isolation is the worst possible counselor. 1.1.12 Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy.1.1.10 X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis.
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