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
fate men unjust
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.
knowing religion atheism
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.
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
science judging reason
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.
mean science prolonging
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
lying silence sometimes
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
doubt triumph reason
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
inspirational motivational friendship
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
art sensations meaning-of-art
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
love men suffering
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
life faith doubt
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
believe motive pretext
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
lying men thinking
Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
ideas doe language
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.