Miguel de Unamuno Quotes - Page 3

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• Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Sacrifice, Men, Vanity

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

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  Death, Mean, Science

  Essays and Soliloquies 'Arbitrary Reflections'

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• Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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  Life, Faith, Doubt

  "Salmo II" (1907)

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

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  Memories, Intelligent, Rely Upon

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• Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.220, Princeton University Press

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• The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

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  Enemy, Truth Is, Reason

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

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  Time, Essence, Tragedy

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• Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

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  Fate, Men, Unjust

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

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  Life, Falling In Love, Fall

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

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  May, Matter, Lawyer

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• Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

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  Lying, Silence, Sometimes

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• The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

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  Men, Church, Temples

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.

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  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Miguel de Unamuno, Warner Fite (1928). “Mist: A Tragicomic Novel”, p.172, University of Illinois Press

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• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

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  Home, Conservatism, Reactionaries

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.321, Courier Corporation

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• Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Cutting, Seeds

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• Consciousness is a disease.

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  Disease, Consciousness

  Miguel de Unamuno, Warner Fite (1928). “Mist: A Tragicomic Novel”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

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  Inspire, Police, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.268, Princeton University Press

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• My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

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  Life, Truth, Philosophy

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• What is vanity but the longing to survive?

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  Vanity, Longing

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

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  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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  Believe, Elude Us, Growth

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• What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

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  Believe, Motive, Pretext

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

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  Science, Judging, Enquiry

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

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  Love, Daughter, Mother

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

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  School, Humility, Science

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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