Fernando Savater

My dream is Picasso's; to have a lot of money to live peacefully like the poor.

It is better to know after having thought and discussed than to accept knowledge that no one discusses in order to avoid having to think.

The secret of happiness is to have simple tastes and a complex mind, the problem is that often the mind is simple and the tastes are complex.

Idiot: From the Greek idiotes, used to refer to someone who did not get involved in politics, concerned only with their own affairs, incapable of offering anything to others.

There is no education if there is no truth to transmit, if everything is more or less true, if everyone has their equally respectable truth and one cannot rationally decide among such diversity.

Unlike old age, which is always superfluous, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion.

Yes, in bullfighting, death is present, but as an ally, as a accomplice of life: death acts as a supporting player so that life asserts itself.

Nothing can be sensibly claimed from life.

Boredom is the primary explanation for why history is so full of atrocity.

One can't do anything for the people they love, just keep on loving them.