"The only way to have a living relationship with the other is aggressive; only those who try to subjugate others spiritually, whether individuals or nations, reach a real penetration, a spiritual brotherhood. Only when I try to introduce my spirit into the spirit of my neighbor do I welcome into my own the spirit of my neighbor."

No, no; this is not at all about free circulation, about "laissez faire, laissez passer"; the goal is not to shrug off in the face of others' ideas, let alone their emotions, but to try to hurt them. Thus, and only thus, will they hurt ours and keep us on guard.

The condemnation of the one who tries to mold himself on the mold of the other is that he ceases to be himself and at the same time fails to be the other whom he has as a model, and thus he is no one."

An extremely timely (for today's Greece) essay from 1906, in which the great Spanish thinker appears to campaign against what, according to him, the "Western Europe" represents. Unamuno makes it clear that he does not desire "any other method than that of passion", he rejects the scientific correctness of his time, he is metaphysical, mystic, medieval. And yet he is a realist and crucial when he denounces the "sterile hybridization" that adulterates without enriching the national identity of a country."