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

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
- Mind
- Heart
- Passion
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Life
- Death
- Faith

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Fear
- Wisdom
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Eternity
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Truth
- Religion
- Knowing
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Miguel de Unamuno
- God
- Universe
- Feels
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
Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Miguel de Unamuno
- Life
- Fall
- Ideas

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Miguel de Unamuno
- Feels
- Intellectual
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