Top 100 Miguel De Unamuno Quotes
#1. Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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#2. If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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#4. Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
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#8. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
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#9. Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
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#10. I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
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#12. These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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#13. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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#14. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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#15. 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.
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#16. What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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#17. All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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#19. Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only ... with the idea God has of you.
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#20. We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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#22. If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
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#24. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
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#25. There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
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#27. Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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#28. The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
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#29. Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
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#30. A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.
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#31. While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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#32. To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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#33. None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
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#34. Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
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#36. 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.
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#37. At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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#39. An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
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#40. For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
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#41. Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
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#42. Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
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#43. It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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#44. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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#47. We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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#48. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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#49. Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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#50. Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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#51. The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.
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#53. Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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#56. If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
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#58. Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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#60. Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
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#63. And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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#64. It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
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#65. Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.
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#66. Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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#67. A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, 'Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?' And the sage answered him, 'Precisely for that reason - because it does not avail.
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#68. There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
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#69. The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
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#70. My work ... is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
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#71. My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
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#72. From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
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#74. My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
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#75. Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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#77. 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.
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#78. The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
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#79. The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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#80. It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
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#82. There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
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#83. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
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#85. The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
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#89. Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
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#90. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
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#91. Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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#96. Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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#97. The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
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#98. And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
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#99. Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
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#100. The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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