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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Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than skepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason.
Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians.
I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul.
Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933)
A philosopher who had made philosophy his speciality, who had first murdered his humanity and then buried it in his philosophy, …
Even in the purest realm of the spirit, without the shadow of any vice, man seeks support in woman, as Francis of Assisi did in Clare.
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905)
La verdadera ciencia enseña, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante. (True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.)
They tell me I am here to realize I know not what social end; but I feel that I, like each one of my fellows, am here to realize myself, to live.
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.
I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever.
May not the absolute and perfect eternal happiness be an eternal hope, which would die if it were realized? Is it possible to be happy without hope? And there is no place for hope once possession has been realized, for hope, desire, is killed by possession.
Act as if you were to die tomorrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized.
The ascetic morality is a negative morality. And strictly, what is important for a man is not to die, whether he sins or not.
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
The most authentic Catholic ethic, monastic asceticism, is an ethic of eschatology, directed to the salvation of the individual soul rather than to the maintenance of society.
Man is perishable. That may be; but let us perish resisting, and if it is nothingness that awaits us, do not let us so act that it shall be a just fate.
The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself.
Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.