“I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me'. Before others, among the busy and distracted crowd, he didn't feel himself. Almost every man lives subconsciously in boredom. Boredom is the pit of life, it was boredom that invented games, distractions, romances and love.”
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"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
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“If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.” ― Miguel de Unamuno |
“And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.” ― Miguel de Unamuno |
"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”
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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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“Through women you will see the entire universe.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
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