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
believe believe-in-god existence
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
believe believe-in-me knows
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
believe too-much littles
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
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.
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
believe motive pretext
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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.
believe elude-us growth
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
men phantoms facts
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
names ideas people
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
may matter lawyer
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
home conservatism reactionaries
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
persons ifs
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.