and here is my confession on patriotism.

I have put it to paper because it is conceivable, human, Hungarian and interesting, and it stimulates everyone to seek for his own Hungarian patriotism and to examine it; and to proceed in a similar way with every other superstition – or let us simply say sentiment – eventually hiding in him that is stronger than every science.

Endre Ady

Published in the October 1913 edition of Szabadgondolat