Miguel De Unamuno Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Miguel De Unamuno
Miguel De Unamuno Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
We 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.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The 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.
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.