Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno More Quotes From Miguel de Unamuno Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying. Miguel de Unamuno men lying thinking The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. Miguel de Unamuno live-life men war 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 sake writing men 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 humility science school Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul. Miguel de Unamuno atheism criticism soul What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. Miguel de Unamuno pretext motive believe And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. Miguel de Unamuno tragedy essence time The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. Miguel de Unamuno temples church men The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. Miguel de Unamuno height faces people Consciousness is a disease. Miguel de Unamuno consciousness disease Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman. Miguel de Unamuno inhuman truth sake The devil is an angel too. Miguel de Unamuno devil angel The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. Miguel de Unamuno have-a-great-day neighbor fall If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. Miguel de Unamuno persons ifs If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. Miguel de Unamuno pedants men philosophy Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Miguel de Unamuno darkness men death I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to. Miguel de Unamuno theology order Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. Miguel de Unamuno falling-in-love life fall Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides. Miguel de Unamuno dream philosophy art Science is a cemetary of dead ideas. Miguel de Unamuno philosophy ideas art
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