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Men Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno
- Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
- If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature…
- Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
- Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow…
- While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
- 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, and…
- The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
- A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
- 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…
- Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
- We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions —…
- Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and…
- 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…
- Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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