Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. 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 motivationalinspirationalfriendship Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. Miguel de Unamuno vanitysacrificemen Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. Miguel de Unamuno depressingconsciousnessevil Men shout to avoid listening to one another. Miguel de Unamuno opennesslisteningmen 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 griefspiritualmen 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 lawyermattermay Those faults we do not have, do not bother us. Miguel de Unamuno faultsbother Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel de Unamuno faithdoubtlife Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Miguel de Unamuno meaning-of-artartistart The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. Miguel de Unamuno givingwayworld 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 victorydestinyfighting 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 painheartfall The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity. Miguel de Unamuno triumphdoubtreason 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 menbelievelying 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 talkingmenheaven Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. Miguel de Unamuno chemistoughtchemistry Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. Miguel de Unamuno turnslife-ismemories 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 daughtermotherlove From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future. Miguel de Unamuno futurevisionmemories These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. Miguel de Unamuno alchemisttechnologyscience
