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

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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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• 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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• 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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• The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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  People, Height, Faces

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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• Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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  Men, Listening, Openness

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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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• 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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• Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

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  Faults, Bother

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

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  Names, Ideas, People

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

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  Knowing, Religion, Atheism

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