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
use harm function
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
truth sake inhuman
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
chemistry chemist ought
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
disease consciousness
Consciousness is a disease.
depressing evil consciousness
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
home conservatism reactionaries
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
cutting seeds
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
history glory mist
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
hands giving carrie
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
order theology
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
soul atheism criticism
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
giving may glory
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
wind house icy
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.
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.