"Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest……" — Miguel de Unamuno

"Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated."

— Miguel de Unamuno

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89 Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a…
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable…
Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as…
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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