Santiago Martinez Delgado famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone.
It is the end result that counts.
The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

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