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
fall habit neighbor
The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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.
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?
fall habit bad-habits
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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.
hands giving carrie
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
history glory mist
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
cutting seeds
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
two theatre conversation
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.