It appears to me to be indisputable that he who I am to-day derives, by a continuous series of states of consciousness, from him who was in my body t… - Miguel de Unamuno

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

And what has Don Quixote left, do you ask? I answer, he has left himself, and a man, a living and eternal man, is worth all the theories and all the philosophies. Other peoples have left chiefly institutions, books; we have left souls; St. Teresa is worth any institution, any Critique of Pure Reason.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.