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
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.
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.
tears repentance anguish
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
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.
pessimism said protest
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
isolation worst counselor
Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
spiritual grief love-is
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
fighting destiny victory
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
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.
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.
persons ifs
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
pity-love spirit pity
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
writing men sake
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.