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
single brother loneliness
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
roots personality suffering
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
vanity longing
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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.
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.
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.