Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugowas a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth29 September 1864
CountrySpain
Fear is the start of wisdom.
believe believe-in-god existence
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
tears repentance anguish
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
war live-life men
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.
soul atheism criticism
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
faith martyr martyred
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
life truth fighting
My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
people common-sense havens
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
chemistry chemist ought
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
depressing evil consciousness
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
believe believe-in-me knows
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
hate fascists fascism
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
time essence tragedy
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
fighting destiny victory
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.