Salvador de Madariaga Quotes

• My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Empathy, Indirect, Synthetic

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

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  Art, Mean, Matter

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• He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

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  Block, Exercise, Power

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• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Peace, War, Lying

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• Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Liberty, Inevitable, Inequality

  Salvador de Madariaga (1937). “Anarchy Or Hierarchy”

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• Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

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  Love, Sex, Flower

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• Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

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  Men, Wonderful, Behavior

  Salvador de Madariaga (1974). “Morning without noon: memoirs”

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• Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

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  Mean, Liberty, Communicate

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• A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

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  Hurt, Military, Shots

  Salvador de Madariaga (1943). “Spain”

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

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  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

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  Sometimes, Sin, Sermons

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

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  Doe, Sin, Enjoy

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• Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

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  Defense, Sin, Pleasure

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Reading, Home, Listening

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• He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Freedom, Hands, Choices

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• Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

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  Literature, Circumstances, Seeds

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Expression, Valleys, Language

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