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Maria Zambrano Quotes on Truth

Maria Zambrano Alarcon was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, and disciple of Jose Ortega y Gasset and one of the principal voices of twentieth-century Spanish-language thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Maria Zambrano on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Maria Zambrano:

    “Poetic reason restores what abstract reason has lost.”

  • Attributed to Maria Zambrano:

    “Philosophy without poetry forgets the wholeness of the human.”

  • Attributed to Maria Zambrano:

    “The exile becomes a witness to truths the homeland could not see.”

  • Attributed to Maria Zambrano:

    “Dawn is the proper hour of philosophy.”