“Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution

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19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

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