Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“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.” — 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
