Miguel de Unamuno Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Spain
- Born: Sep 29, 1864
- Died: Dec 31, 1936
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and Greek professor and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life, and his most famous novel was Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion, a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
being good
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
faith
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
intelligence
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
death & faith
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
hope
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
love & sadness
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
love
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
science
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
death
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
aging & death
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
science
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
faith