“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each must obey an absolute rule of conduct. Three words established and hallowed by usage express the divinities, the values, the supreme aims served respectively by these three kinds of men with an undivided loyalty: truth for the scientist;… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space --… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each must obey an absolute rule of conduct. Three words established and hallowed by usage express the divinities, the values, the supreme aims served respectively by these three kinds of men with an undivided loyalty: truth for the scientist;… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin — Salvador De Madariaga Copy Share
“The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.” — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
