Eduardo Nicol Quotes

Eduardo Nicol was a Spanish-Mexican philosopher and one of the most original voices of the Spanish philosophical exile in Latin America after the Civil War. Trained at Barcelona under Joaquim Xirau, he settled in Mexico in 1939 and spent the rest of his career at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he developed in his Metaphysics of Expression, The Idea of Man, and Critique of Speculative Reason an original metaphysics in which being expresses itself in dialogue and in which civilization is the historical form of that expression. The quotes below are attributed to Eduardo Nicol, organized by topic.