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Miguel De Unamuno Quotes

I am the center of my universe, the center of the universe, and in my supreme anguish I cry with Michelet, Mon moi, ils m'arrachent mon moi! What is a man profited if he shall gain the world and lose his own soul? Picture Quote #1

The ascetic morality is a negative morality. And strictly, what is important for a man is not to die, whether he sins or not Picture Quote #1

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason Picture Quote #1

From whatever side the matter is regarded, it is always found that reason confronts our longing for personal immortality and contradicts it. And the truth is, in all strictness, that reason is the enemy of life Picture Quote #1

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined Picture Quote #1

Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than skepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason Picture Quote #1

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Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation Picture Quote #1

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist Picture Quote #1

To know something is to make this something that I know myself; but to avail myself of it, to dominate it, it has to remain distinct from myself Picture Quote #1

For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves Picture Quote #1

I have told you that... We know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity Picture Quote #1

And if it is grievous to be doomed one day to cease to be, perhaps it would be more grievous still to go on being always oneself, and no more than oneself, without being able to be at the same time other, without being able to be at the same time everything else, without being able to be all Picture Quote #1

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And thus the soul pities God and feels itself pitied by him; loves Him and feels loved by Him, sheltering its misery in the bosom of the eternal and infinite misery, which, in eternalizing itself and infinitizing itself, is the supreme happiness itself Picture Quote #1

But the capacity to enjoy is impossible without the capacity to suffer; and the faculty of enjoyment is one with that of pain. Whosoever does not suffer does not enjoy, just as whosoever is insensible to cold is insensible to heat Picture Quote #1

There is nothing truly real, save that which feels, suffers, pities, loves and desires, save consciousness. And we need God in order to save consciousness; not in order to think existence, but in order to live it; not in order to know the why and how of it, but in order to feel the wherefore of it Picture Quote #1

And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself Picture Quote #1

Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity Picture Quote #1

Jesus said that God was not the God of the dead, but of the living. And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this Earthly and transitory life Picture Quote #1

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And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our Earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate Picture Quote #1

Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost Picture Quote #1

The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself Picture Quote #1

Uncertainty, doubt, perpetual wrestling with the mystery of our final destiny, mental despair, and the lack of any solid and stable foundation, may be the basis of an ethic Picture Quote #1

Passion is like suffering, and like suffering it creates its object. It is easier for the fire to find something to burn than for something combustible to find the fire Picture Quote #1

Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians Picture Quote #1

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Over all civilizations there hovers the shadow of Ecclesiastes, with his admonition, How dieth the wise man? - As the fool Picture Quote #1

For the mockers are those who die comically, and God laughs at their comic ending, while the nobler part, the part of tragedy, is theirs who endured the mockery Picture Quote #1

The march, as ever, is toward the future, and he who marches is getting there, even though he march walking backwards. And who knows if that is not the better way! Picture Quote #1

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity Picture Quote #1

Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky Picture Quote #1

One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...Opium...Opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream Picture Quote #1

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I am the center of my universe, the center of the universe, and in my supreme anguish I cry with Michelet, Mon moi, ils m'arrachent mon moi! What is a man profited if he shall gain the world and lose his own soul? (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) The ascetic morality is a negative morality. And strictly, what is important for a man is not to die, whether he sins or not (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) From whatever side the matter is regarded, it is always found that reason confronts our longing for personal immortality and contradicts it. And the truth is, in all strictness, that reason is the enemy of life (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than skepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) To know something is to make this something that I know myself; but to avail myself of it, to dominate it, it has to remain distinct from myself (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) I have told you that... We know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) And if it is grievous to be doomed one day to cease to be, perhaps it would be more grievous still to go on being always oneself, and no more than oneself, without being able to be at the same time other, without being able to be at the same time everything else, without being able to be all (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) And thus the soul pities God and feels itself pitied by him; loves Him and feels loved by Him, sheltering its misery in the bosom of the eternal and infinite misery, which, in eternalizing itself and infinitizing itself, is the supreme happiness itself (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) But the capacity to enjoy is impossible without the capacity to suffer; and the faculty of enjoyment is one with that of pain. Whosoever does not suffer does not enjoy, just as whosoever is insensible to cold is insensible to heat (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) There is nothing truly real, save that which feels, suffers, pities, loves and desires, save consciousness. And we need God in order to save consciousness; not in order to think existence, but in order to live it; not in order to know the why and how of it, but in order to feel the wherefore of it (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Nothing is lost, nothing wholly passes away, for in some way or another everything is perpetuated; and everything, after passing through time, returns to eternity (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Jesus said that God was not the God of the dead, but of the living. And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this Earthly and transitory life (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our Earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) The very same reason which one man may regard as a motive for taking care to prolong his life may be regarded by another man as a motive for shooting himself (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Uncertainty, doubt, perpetual wrestling with the mystery of our final destiny, mental despair, and the lack of any solid and stable foundation, may be the basis of an ethic (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Passion is like suffering, and like suffering it creates its object. It is easier for the fire to find something to burn than for something combustible to find the fire (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Over all civilizations there hovers the shadow of Ecclesiastes, with his admonition, How dieth the wise man? - As the fool (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) For the mockers are those who die comically, and God laughs at their comic ending, while the nobler part, the part of tragedy, is theirs who endured the mockery (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) The march, as ever, is toward the future, and he who marches is getting there, even though he march walking backwards. And who knows if that is not the better way! (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes) One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...Opium...Opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream (Miguel De Unamuno Quotes)

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