Gregorio Luri (Azagra, Navarre, 1955) reads peacefully in the sun. The philosopher and educator, author of School is not an amusement park and The conservative imagination, received last Monday the Atlantis prize and is pleased with the publication of The dignity of mediocrity. A short philosophy of the unfinished. (Encounter, 2025). In both books and conversation, Luri uses quotations to weave together discourse and ideas. He does not do so—he assures us—or not only, for personal enjoyment, but because of the duty he believes we all have to transmit those things that help us understand the world a little better.