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
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.
life falling-in-love fall
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
enemy truth-is reason
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
faults bother
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
time essence tragedy
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.