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
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.
art philosophy ideas
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
ideas people looks
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
optimistic ideas optimism
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.
issues ideas may
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
ideas doe language
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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.
men phantoms facts
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
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.