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Miguel de Unamuno on Philosophy

1864–1936 Spain

← All quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

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If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

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)

Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians.

A philosopher who had made philosophy his speciality, who had first murdered his humanity and then buried it in his philosophy, …

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Unamuno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.