It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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1864–1936 Spain
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.
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Also known as: Unamuno, Miguel de
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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1914)
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas.
Love is a contradiction if there is no God.
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933)
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1914)
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.
Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.
Through her, through your Aldonza, through women you will see into the entire universe.
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue (1920)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Unamuno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.