Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

About Miguel de Unamuno:

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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¿Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...

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Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.

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El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél.

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Pois o que sentira por sua mulher e a ela o cingia, via bem, agora que ela se fora, que se lhe chegou a confundir com o rotineiro da vida diária, que o respirara nas mil insignificâncias do viver doméstico, que lhe foi como o ar que se respira e p...

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¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de la aldea, a perdernos en ellas para quedar ...

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A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail.

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

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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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Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh ...

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Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museu...

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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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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

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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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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameMiguel de Unamuno
  • Description19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
  • AliasesMiguel de Unamuno y Jugo; Unamuno
  • BornSeptember 29, 1864
  • DiedDecember 31, 1936
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionPoet; Philosopher; Writer; Essayist; Novelist