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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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

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

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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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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

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If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

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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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It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

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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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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.

Miguel de Unamuno

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.

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.

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Miguel de Unamuno

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

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That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

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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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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