Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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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Man sees, hears, touches, tastes and smells that which it is necessary for him to see, hear, touch, taste and smell in order to preserve his life.
It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them.
May it not be that all the thoughts that have ever passed through the Supreme Consciousness still subsist therein? In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Niebla [Mist (1914)
Act so that in your own judgment and in the judgment of others you may merit eternity, act so that you may become irreplaceable, act so that you may not merit death.
Not by way of reason, but only by way of love and suffering, do we come to the living God, the human God.
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.
Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself — that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks — he lies to himself.
Niebla [Mist (1914)
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933)
Only in solitude do we find ourselves, and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
There are at least two things that clearly can be attributed to the Basques: the Society of Jesus and the Republic of Chile.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.
"Love thy neighbor as thyself," we are told, the presupposition being that each man loves himself; and it is not said "Love thyself." And nevertheless, we do not know how to love ourselves.
And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God.
A man who had never known suffering, either in greater or less degree, would scarcely possess consciousness of himself.
Knowledge is employed in the service of the necessity of life and primarily in the service of the instinct of personal preservation.
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
Niebla [Mist (1914)
Each man is worth more than the whole of humanity, nor will it do to sacrifice each to all save in so far as all sacrifice themselves to each.
Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity.