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

  Miguel de Unamuno

  May, Matter, Lawyer

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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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• 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.

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  God, Order, Giving

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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  Art, Artist, Meaning Of Art

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• Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

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  Memories, Life Is, Turns

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.349, tredition

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

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  Cutting, Seeds

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• These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

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  Science, Technology, Alchemist

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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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• 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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• From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

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  Memories, Future, Vision

  Miguel de Unamuno (1926). “The tragic sense of life in men and in peoples”

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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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• The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

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  Tears, Repentance, Anguish

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

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  Believe, Elude Us, Growth

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• Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

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  Men, Made

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

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  Optimistic, Ideas, Optimism

  1913 The Tragic Sense of Life.

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• Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

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  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

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  Chemistry, Chemist, Ought

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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