Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
Antonio MachadoThe unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
Antonio MachadoAll uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
Antonio MachadoMy philosophy is fundamentally sad, but Iโm not a sad man, and I donโt believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I donโt put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
Antonio Machado