True Science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant. That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. In Spain, erudition tends to mask the fetid sore of moral cowardice that has poisoned our collective soul. They pick out a book here and there, extracting sentences and doctrines which they put together and stew, or they spend a year or two or twenty rummaging through files and stacks of papers in some archive or other so that they may announce this or that discovery. The object is to avoid looking into one's own heart and plumbing it, to avoid thinking and, even more, feeling.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . .