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
life truth fighting
My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
enemy truth-is reason
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
truth sake inhuman
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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.
dream art philosophy
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.