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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Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.
There is nothing more universal than the individual, for what is the property of each is the property of all.
Each consciousness seeks to be itself and all other consciousnesses without ceasing to be itself; it seeks to be God.
We must needs believe in the other life, in the eternal life beyond the grave.
God is in each of us in the measure in which one feels Him and loves Him.
Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith.
Uncertainty, doubt, perpetual wrestling with the mystery of our final destiny, mental despair, and the lack of any solid and stable foundation, may be the basis of an ethic.
All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes?
Niebla [Mist (1914)
Reason, that which we call reason, reflex and reflective knowledge, the distinguishing mark of man, is a social product.
Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
The truth is sum, ergo cogito — I am, therefore I think, although not everything that is thinks. Is not consciousness of thinking above all consciousness of being?
If I must recompense your evil, I must recompense it with good, for I am and have no other.
Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross.
I know that all this is dull reading, tiresome, perhaps tedious, but it is all necessary.
Religion is better described than defined and better felt than described.
Everything in me that conspires to break the unity and continuity of my life conspires to destroy me and consequently to destroy itself.
Whosoever will investigate the memorials of primitive times will find this ideal of woman in its full force and purity; the Universe is woman.
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.