Miguel de Unamuno Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Spiritual, Grief, Men

• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Talking, Heaven

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.7, Princeton University Press

• Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Soul, Criticism, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.90, Princeton University Press

• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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