Miguel Unamuno
Miguel 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...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 September 1864
loved sad sadder
It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love
causing heart love neither notes passing true vanity
The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate.
ask principle reason understand
And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.
above doubt ignorant science true
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant