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. Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes From Miguel de Unamuno Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling Miguel de Unamuno fascism reading racism Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno dream love funny The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read. Miguel de Unamuno 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. Miguel de Unamuno mean religion thinking Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. Miguel de Unamuno single loneliness brother It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno sad love life We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. Miguel de Unamuno parent advice past Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. Miguel de Unamuno personality suffering roots My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast. Miguel de Unamuno yeast bread people Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. Miguel de Unamuno phantoms men facts Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. Miguel de Unamuno encouragement motivational life Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God. Miguel de Unamuno passion heart believe 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 vanity caring ideas True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant. Miguel de Unamuno ignorant doubt science There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker. Miguel de Unamuno names people ideas Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life. Miguel de Unamuno technology philosophy science To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. Miguel de Unamuno religious god believe I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny. Miguel de Unamuno drawing destiny believe 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 people looks ideas Isolation is the worst possible counselor. Miguel de Unamuno counselor isolation worst
