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
doubt triumph reason
The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
love funny dream
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
love life heartbreak
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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.
reading racism fascism
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
vanity longing
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
life motivational encouragement
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
ideas doe language
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
life faith doubt
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
inspirational motivational friendship
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
love men suffering
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
emotional thinking intellectual
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
truth sake inhuman
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.