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“Noi uomini siamo davvero uomini solo perché ci sono i cani, i gatti, i cavalli, i buoi, le pecore e tutti gli altri animali, soprattutto quelli domestici! Forse che l’uomo avrebbe conquistato la sua umanità se gli fossero mancati gli animali domestici su cui scaricare il peso della bestialità della vita? Se l’uomo non avesse addomesticato il cavallo, oggi la metà della nostra progenie sarebbe in groppa all’altra metà! Sì, è a voi che si deve la civilizzazione! E alle donne. E non sarà che anche la donna è un animale domestico? E se non ci fossero le donne, gli uomini sarebbero uomini lo stesso?”

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Book:Niebla
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“Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?”

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Book:The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
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“The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.”

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“Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?”

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Book:Tragic Sense of Life
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“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”

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“Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.”

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