Antonio Machado Quotations

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.

Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.