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
truth believe men
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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.
memories life-is converting
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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.
love daughter mother
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
memories vision our-future
From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
fate men unjust
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.
love birthday death
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
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.
dream art philosophy
Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.
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.