Miguel de UnamunoWhile men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (2012). Tragic Sense Of Life, p.72, tredition<… ▶361LifeTruth
Miguel de UnamunoAnd killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.361HumorTime
Miguel de UnamunoCure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.374HumanityThought
Miguel de UnamunoScience says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' a… ▶374DeathLifePhilosophy
Miguel de UnamunoThat which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.353Reflection
Miguel de UnamunoPiensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)364Thought
Miguel de UnamunoThe only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (2012). Tragic Sense of Life, p.152, Courier Corporation343Life
Miguel de UnamunoAnd usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime… ▶321LifeSadnessTime
Miguel de UnamunoAt times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you wo… ▶332Time
Miguel de UnamunoThose faults we do not have, do not bother us.333Love
Miguel de UnamunoFor it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mot… ▶322DeathLifeLove
Miguel de UnamunoScience is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (2012). Tragic Sense Of Life, p.152, tredition356DeathLifeThought
Miguel de UnamunoIt is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.313HopeTruth
Miguel de UnamunoFascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling291Reading
Miguel de UnamunoIf a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. ✨ Quoted in Godel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1979.3710Thought
Miguel de UnamunoLove is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1977). The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, p.146, Princeton University Press281LifeLove
Miguel de UnamunoTo fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1977). The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, p.225, Princeton University Press293Life
Miguel de UnamunoWe need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (2012). Trag… ▶282LifePhilosophy
Miguel de UnamunoThe skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1925). Ess… ▶337Thought
Miguel de UnamunoMy work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith i… ▶283Hope
Miguel de UnamunoWhat is vanity but the longing to survive? ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1977). The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, p.59, Princeton University Press283Life
Miguel de UnamunoThe greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1977). The Tragic Sense of Life in Men… ▶283HumanityLife
Miguel de UnamunoAnyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.305Politics
Miguel de UnamunoWe should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.305HopeTime
Miguel de UnamunoChemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (2012). Tragic Sense of Life, p.328, Courier Corporation272Life
Miguel de UnamunoThe devil is an angel too. ✨ Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue. Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1920.272Reading
Miguel de UnamunoMy aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.273HumanityReading
Miguel de UnamunoOnly he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1925). Essays and Soliloquies306Love
Miguel de UnamunoThe truth is that reason is the enemy of life.339LifeTruth
Miguel de UnamunoOnly in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ✨ Miguel de Unamuno (1925). Essays and Soliloquies318Sadness
