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
faults bother
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
men listening openness
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
enemy truth-is reason
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
pity-love spirit pity
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
memories intelligent rely-upon
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
fall habit neighbor
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
angel devil
The devil is an angel too.
memories vision our-future
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
love daughter mother
For 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, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
philosophy men pedants
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.
men church temples
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
art philosophy ideas
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
ideas people looks
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
philosophy science technology
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.