Julián Marías

What worries me the most is that in Spain everyone is asking: What is going to happen? Almost nobody is asking: What are we going to do?

One should not try to please those who will not be pleased.

Living is taking stock of what has been lived.

I have always been outraged by the belief that three numbers can express the beauty of a woman, which has cost poets so many hendecasyllables.

Too often, some men sacrifice being themselves in order to be different.

False doctrines tend to seek imposition, true ones prefer to justify themselves.

To the extent that one loves, one needs to keep living or come back to life after death, in order to keep loving.