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
philosophy science technology
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
school humility science
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
science ignorant doubt
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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.
science technology alchemist
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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.