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
order theology
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
isolation worst counselor
Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
pessimism said protest
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
men talking heaven
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?
optimistic ideas optimism
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
believe too-much littles
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
pain fall heart
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.
god doe martyr
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
faith wish may
Faith is, before all and above all, wishing God may exist.
use harm function
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
school sincere pretense
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
memories life-is converting
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
school humility science
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
truth sake inhuman
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.