Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Spain, Essayist
September 29, 1864 – December, 31, 1936.

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.

Also known as Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Philosopher, Professor

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Miguel de Unamuno
- World
- Needs
- Philosophy
Fear is the start of wisdom.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Fear
- Wisdom

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
- Police
- Hell
- Worst
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno
What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Miguel de Unamuno
- May
- Faith
- Wish
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Miguel de Unamuno
- Reading
- Racism
- Fascism
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Tears
- Repentance
- Anguish
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Life
- Fall
- Ideas

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Truth
- Reason
- Enemy
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Cold
- Darkness
- Dies
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Miguel de Unamuno
- Feels
- Intellectual