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
cat men animal
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
people yeast bread
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
lying winning order
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
writing men sake
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
faith doubt doe
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
god order giving
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
science technology alchemist
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
believe heart passion
Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
believe destiny hands
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular Providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.
emotional thinking intellectual
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
caring ideas vanity
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
fall habit bad-habits
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
vanity longing
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
believe elude-us growth
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.