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?
emotional thinking intellectual
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
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.
hands giving carrie
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.
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.
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.
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.