March 2016
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In light of the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, and tyranny. What a reversal 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 about to say my mission—is to shatter the faith of some, and even of a third party: faith in affirmation, faith in denial, and faith in abstention; and this through 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 I have a medieval soul, and I believe that the soul of my homeland is medieval, that, by necessity, it has passed through the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Revolution, learning something from them, certainly, but without letting its soul be touched, preserving the spiritual heritage of those so-called foggy times. And quixotism is only… Continue reading