Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost. - Miguel de Unamuno

Hegel made famous his aphorism that all the rational is real and all the real rational; but there are many of us who, unconvinced by Hegel, continue to believe that the real, the really real, is irrational, that reason builds upon irrationalities. Hegel, a great framer of definitions, attempted with definitions to reconstruct the universe, like that artillery sergeant who said that cannon were made by taking a hole and enclosing it with steel.

Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

Reason, that which we call reason, reflex and reflective knowledge, the distinguishing mark of man, is a social product.