Quote

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

Miguel de Unamuno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Miguel de Unamuno
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: September 29
Died: 1936
Died: December 31
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel Unamuno
Bother
Faults

More quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

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 to the universe.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The devil is an angel too.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento. (roughly translated, Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual)
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
Miguel de Unamuno
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, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The tears of anguish irritate and excite but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel de Unamuno