If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — 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
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
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. — 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… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,… — 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
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or… — 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
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — 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
