Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me'. Before others, among the busy… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“All religions are true insofar as they give spiritual life to the people who profess them, insofar as they console them for… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Beneath the current of our existence and within it, there is another current flowing in the opposite direction. In this life we… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.” — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
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,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image