Quote

The devil is an angel too.

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
Angel
Devil

More quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Image
Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread I'm selling yeast.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.
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
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
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
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
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.
Miguel de Unamuno
Image
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.
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
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Miguel de Unamuno