Miguel de Unamuno Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

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  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.72, tredition

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• What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

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  Faith, Wish, May

  "Tragic Sense of Life".

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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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• Fear is the start of wisdom.

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• We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

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  Success, Believe, Believe In Me

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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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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• 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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• Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

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  Soul, Criticism, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

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  Pain, Fall, Heart

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.307, Princeton University Press

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• My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

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  Writing, Men, Sake

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• If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

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  Philosophy, Men, Pedants

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

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  War, Live Life, Men

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• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

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  Men, Talking, Heaven

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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  God, Doe, Martyr

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

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  Wind, House, Icy

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.121, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

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  Grief, Order, Amusement

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

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  History, Glory, Mist

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

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  Love, Birthday, Death

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• Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

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  Two, Theatre, Conversation

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• Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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  Death, Men, Darkness

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