No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. — 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… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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
