All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes From Miguel de Unamuno Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. Miguel de Unamuno motivational inspirational friendship Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. Miguel de Unamuno vanity sacrifice men Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. Miguel de Unamuno depressing consciousness evil Men shout to avoid listening to one another. Miguel de Unamuno openness listening men Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another. Miguel de Unamuno grief spiritual men Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself. Miguel de Unamuno lawyer matter may Those faults we do not have, do not bother us. Miguel de Unamuno faults bother Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel de Unamuno faith doubt life Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Miguel de Unamuno meaning-of-art artist art The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. Miguel de Unamuno giving way world If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory. Miguel de Unamuno victory destiny fighting He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist. Miguel de Unamuno pain heart fall The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity. Miguel de Unamuno triumph doubt reason We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them. Miguel de Unamuno men believe lying Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God? Miguel de Unamuno talking men heaven Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Miguel de Unamuno rely-upon intelligent memories Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. Miguel de Unamuno chemist ought chemistry Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Miguel de Unamuno turns life-is memories 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 Miguel de Unamuno daughter mother love From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future. Miguel de Unamuno future vision memories
