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Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Miguel de Unamuno quotes

Spanish Educator September 29, 1864 – December 31, 1936

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The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it. Miguel de Unamuno
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. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to..."
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno
Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and... Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he..."
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most..."
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. Miguel de Unamuno
Beneath the current of our existence and within it, there is another current flowing in the opposite direction. In this life we go from yesterday to tomorrow, but there we go from tomorrow to yesterday. The web of life is being woven and unraveled at the same time. And from time to time we get breaths and vapors and even mysterious murmurs from that other world, from that interior of our own world. The inner heart of history is a counter-history; it is a process which inverts the course of... Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into..."
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death."
Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel de Unamuno
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Suffering is the substance of life and the root of..."
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "The truth is that reason is the enemy of life."
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life. Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"
Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually..."
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. Miguel de Unamuno

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