Egoism you say? There is nothing more universal than the individual, for what is the property of each is the property of all. Each man is worth more … - Miguel de Unamuno

«¿Por qué el diminutivo es señal de cariño? — iba diciéndose Augusto camino de su casa — . ¿Es acaso que el amor achica la cosa amada?

And why be scandalized by the infallibility of a man, of the Pope? What difference does it make whether it be a book that is infallible — the Bible, or a society of men — the Church, or a single man? Does it make any essential change in the rational difficulty? And since the infallibility of a book or of a society of men is not more rational than that of a single man, this supreme offense to the eyes of reason has to be postulated.

What the sorrowful Jew of Amsterdam called the essence of a thing, the effort that it makes to persist indefinitely in its own being, self-love, the longing for immortality, is it not perhaps the primal and fundamental condition of all reflective or human knowledge? And is it not therefore the true base, the real starting-point, of all philosophy, although the philosophers, perverted by intellectualism, do not recognize it?