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Miguel de Unamuno Biography

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Act, Believe, Exist, God, Religious

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Anguish, Repentance, Tears, Wash

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Heartbreak, Life, Love, Sad, Sadder

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Contradicts, Ifs, Nothing, Person, Persons, Says

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Fascism, Fascists, Hate, Intelligence

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Life, Personality, Persons, Roots, Suffering

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Ideas, Make, Optimism, Optimistic

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Fear, Start, Wisdom

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Bad Habits, Cease, Fall, Habit

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

Affords, Commonplaces, Conversation, Exchange, Theatre, Two

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Love, Pities, Pity Love, Spirit

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Men, Phantoms, Facts, Wisdom, Science

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Give, Giving, Glory, God, May

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Effect, Enquiry, Judging, Know, Science

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Daughter, Depth, Love, Mother

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Inhuman, Knowledge, Sake, Truth

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Advice, Future, Offspring, Parent, Parents, Past

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Doubt, Faith, Life, Nothing

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

Bother, Faults

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Amusement, Finality, Grief, Life, Order, Seek

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