March 2016
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Based on the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become a synonym for implacable order, thoughtless force, and tyranny. What an inversion of values! Whereas, according to Antigone, authority prevented tyranny! The modern era has this impression of authority because it has been trampled underfoot by Continue reading
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Unamuno on his quixotic quest
My work – I was going to say my mission – is to break the faith of one and all, and even of a third party: faith in affirmation, faith in negation and faith in abstention; and this by faith in faith itself. It is to fight all those who resign themselves, Continue reading
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Unamuno on Don Quixote
I feel a medieval soul and I have the idea that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by force, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Revolution, learning something from them, fine, but without letting its soul be touched, preserving the spiritual heritage of these times that we call foggy. And Quixotism is only Continue reading