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Miguel de Unamuno [1864-1936] Spanish
Rank: 101
Educator, Essayist


Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

Love, Death, Faith, Age, Art, Good, Happiness, Hope, Intelligence, Sad, Science



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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
101
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Age, Death, Love
102
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
103
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. Good
104
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Love, Sad
105
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
106
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. Hope
107
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Love
108
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
109
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Art
110
Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Death
111
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Happiness
112
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.
113
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. Faith
114
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. Science
115
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
116
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
117
Consciousness is a disease.
118
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
119
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
120
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.
121
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
122
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
123
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Faith
124
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
125
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
126
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
201
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. Intelligence
202
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
203
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
204
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
205

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