Miguel de Unamuno
Spain
29 Sep 1864 // 31 Dec 1936
Essayist / Philosopher / Writer
29 Sep 1864 // 31 Dec 1936
Essayist / Philosopher / Writer
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Everything vital is, not only irrational, but anti-rational, and everything rational is anti-vital
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best
Isolation is the worst possible counselor
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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