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
disease consciousness
Consciousness is a disease.
giving world way
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
spiritual grief love-is
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
sacrifice men vanity
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
men darkness despair
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
science ignorant doubt
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
life falling-in-love fall
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
art fall men
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
lying believe men
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
issues ideas may
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
grief order amusement
And 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 and amusement.
knowledge goal sake
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.
love birthday death
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
people height faces
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.