Antonio Machado Best Quotes & Sayings

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado

But don't hunt for dissonance:
There is no such thing;
People dance to all tunes. — Antonio Machado

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

I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup. — Antonio Machado

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up. — Antonio Machado

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado

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

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

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado

I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado

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. — Antonio Machado

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado

What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you. — Antonio Machado

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. — Antonio Machado

I thought my fireplace dead
and stirred the ashes.
I burned my fingers. — Antonio Machado

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush. — Antonio Machado

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand — Antonio Machado

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. — Antonio Machado

The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing. — Antonio Machado

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. — Antonio Machado

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado

Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. — Antonio Machado

Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path — Antonio Machado

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk. — Antonio Machado

Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming
its eyes are opened wide
watching distant signals, listening
on the rim of vast silence — Antonio Machado

Your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else
there is no road, it is born of walking
and looking back, you gaze upon the path
to which you never shall return
there is no road, wanderer
only wakes upon the sea — Antonio Machado

All our efforts must tend towards light. — Antonio Machado