Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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• Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

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  Reading, Racism, Fascism

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• We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

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  Past, Parent, Advice

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• Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

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  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

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  People, Yeast, Bread

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• The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

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• Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

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  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

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  Roots, Personality, Suffering

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.288, tredition

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• Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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  Single, Brother, Loneliness

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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  Hate, Fascists, Fascism

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• The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

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  Fall, Have A Great Day, Neighbor

  "The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations".

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• To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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  Fall, Habit, Bad Habits

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.225, Princeton University Press

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• There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

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  People, Common Sense, Havens

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• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

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  Love, Funny, Dream

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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• Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

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  Caring, Vanity, Ideas

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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  Men, Listening, Openness

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• Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

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  Emotional, Thinking, Intellectual

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• It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

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  Love, Life, Sad

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• If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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  Persons, Ifs

  Quoted in "Godel, Escher, Bach" Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1979.

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• At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

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  Lying, Winning, Order

  Miguel de Unamuno, “At Times To Be Silent Is To Lie”

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• The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

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  Mean, Thinking, Religion

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Doubt

  "The Agony of Christianity". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1931.

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• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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  Humor, Talking, Fool

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• True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

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  Science, Doubt, Ignorant

  The Tragic Sense of Life Ch. V

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• 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.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

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• Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

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  Spiritual, Grief, Men

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